Restricting only the smaller dimension when resizing

This is a great plugin! I have a suggestion that might make it even more useful.

I often need to resize an image while restricting only the smaller of the two dimensions, similar to the behavior of background-size: cover in CSS. Since you don't necessarily know whether the image is portrait or landscape, you can't simply use the maxWidth or maxHeight options to accomplish this. This would require a new option that would look something like this:

smallDimension: 500

In this case, if the image is portrait, the width would be constrained to 500 pixels. If the image is landscape, the height would be constrained to 500 pixels.

[blueimp]

With the new cover option, you can achieve what you want, you only need to supply the dimensions of the containing element, e.g.:

var coverImage = loadImage.scale(img, {
    maxWidth: containerWidth,
    maxHeight: containerHeight,
    cover: true
});

Wow – you're fast! Thanks!