Why don't we just limit width or height, whichever is larger, to 180 px (or another value)? This effect can already be achieved with [[File:Foo.jpg|180x180px]]

The nice thing about the standard "thumb" display with a fixed width is that articles look a lot better when there are thumbs to the right with the same width. It would look chaotic when the width would always change randomly based on its height.

virtueller_andy wrote:

In my opinion a fixed width doesn't look better if in turn both upright and landscape format images appear on the same page (like the first two images in the link). Then I better take the loss of fixed width if the image sizes will fit together.

I mean I don't have a problem with two different widths for the thumbnails. But when you calculate the thumbnail width and height dynamically so it should be 40k px in product (like your example), then every image will have a different size and on articles with a lot images you have multiple images with multiple different widths - and that will look bad.

virtueller_andy wrote:

I belive, it will look better than the same size for every image (no one uses these two sizes in practice!).

virtueller_andy wrote:

Is anyone already trying to realize this request?

comment #4 says it all.

virtueller_andy wrote:

I believe it looks even worse, if - as usual! - images have alle the same width, even though if some of them are much higher than other images.