Thus spake Benjamin Hardcastle: > Graphics only scale well when you have a scaling factor of multiples of 100%. This is true for line-art - stuff with hard transitions - stuff that really ought to be in a vector format to start with. JPEGs (of photographic material) scale very nicely to arbitrary intervals - try it. > Designers would resort to setting everything to a form of "fixed" so that >their > images are not completely ruined by the UA. Precisely - and this is happening. Now look at the images in GIF format on the Web, and ask yourself how many of them would be necessary with a) a really solid CSS1&2 implementation and b) a vector graphics format for the rest. So, lacking CSS and SVG, we're definitely stuck in a bad place. All this fine talk is to assure that once some of the other fundamentals are worked out, they won't be hamstrung by neglect of these simple dependencies. -- Todd Fahrner The printed page transcends space and time. mailto:fahrner@pobox.com The printed page, the infinitude of books, http://www.verso.com/agitprop/ must be transcended. THE ELECTRO-LIBRARY. - El Lissitzky, 1923Received on Tuesday, 22 December 1998 12:51:39 GMT
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