First of all, in Factory Nova we are showing thumbnails for all uploaded images. So, for example, a designer can upload mockups of the design that he/she is creating to a task and everyone can see them as thumbnails, not just as a name of a file.
But we have gone even further with this. If you will click on a thumbnail you would get to a page where a bigger version of the image is displayed and you can discuss it, posting comments right under the image. We use this feature ourselves quite often when working on the new Factory Nova interface.
Wait! There is even more. The image on this comments page is dynamically resized to fit the size of your browser window. If the window is smaller then the image then the image is slightly decreased to fit (and of course at any time you can simply click on the image and see its original version). The resizing is done on the server side (not in the browser) and thus the quality of the resized image is quite good.
I’ve just added one more feature to this functionality. When you resize your browser window, the image is resized as well!
Here is a video of how this works (please ignore the interface of Factory Nova that you can see in the movie — this is our current interface, it is all in Russian, and we are working on completely changing it).
QuickTime movie (3.3 Mb).
Wow, Sergey – this is a very cool feature! Aside from adding the thumbnail feature, which most project management systems lack, you’ve taken it a step further with server-side re-sizing and allowing the user to view the image while writing a discussion of it. I can’t wait for the release of Factory Nova!