Broken Images

[Dan Johnston]

Can you elaborate a little on this scaling problem? While I have 
experienced various stalls and crashes that I'd like to understand, I 
didn't realise that Netscape (for example) performs any scaling function, 
at least for bitmapped images - I thought I always see them 1:1, that is, 
one screen pixel for one image file pixel, even though I gather the image 
files for jpeg and gif do contain scaling information.

 -Dan Johnston
  djohnsto at library.berkeley.edu

On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Shawn J.P. West (BlackSheep) wrote:

(snip)
> 
> 2) The graphic was scaled badly. What i mean is sometimes to save time
> i've seen web sites where people have scaled a  very large graphic to make
> it very small this puts more stress on the "client ie. netscape or
> internet explorer". Because they have to scale the graphic. Even thought
> netscape uses height and width to draw the web page, microsoft does not
> and this can slow your page.
> 
(snip)