- From: Benjamin Hardcastle <benjaminh@epic.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 09:15:31 -0000
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
> 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. > At the risk of sounding uppity, photographs do not scale up well. I know. I agree that it is less *noticable* on a photograph, but the image quality is degraded. Maybe of you had a very blurry, poorly photographed picture, this scaling might improve the image. I've been a graphic artist for many years (amongst other things), and I have a great deal of experience in scaling images... There! Don't I sound awful? ;] I think I'd prefer for the images on my pages to remain as I intended them to look, and not ruined by arbitrary scaling 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. > Indeed. I think we agree. Benjamin
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