- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:50:32 -0800
- To: <benjaminh@epic.co.uk>, <www-style@w3.org>
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, 1923
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