Re: Adaptive images

On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:57:55 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>  
wrote:

>> What about when the user zooms in on the image with an iPhone 3G?  
>> Wouldn't the user want the sharper image then?
>
> This rarely comes up. Usually the user is either looking at the site  
> zoomed out, or panning around in true 1 to 1 size, or the site is  
> designed to fit in one screen width without zooming in or out.

Being locked to 1:1 is my huge gripe with Flickr mobile website. On  
touchscreen phone I want and expect double-tap to usefully zoom in an  
image — that's how it should be. The status-quo is that it doesn't really  
work, but I think it's due to lack of easy way to implement it and the  
fact that sites are built using design patterns borrowed from keypad  
phone/desktop design.

There's similar use-case on desktop: I'd like 90dpi images to be replaced  
with 300dpi variants before print.

-- 
regards, porneL

Received on Thursday, 2 June 2011 11:21:14 UTC