Broken Images

[Steve Hooley!]

        My search revealed that the decline of Western civilization is
probably to blame. As early as the Twenties your problem was foreseen:
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images...
				T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land 1922


>Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:36:13 -0800
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>> From: Dan Johnston <djohnsto at library.berkeley.edu>
>> To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
>> Subject: Re: Broken Images
>> Date: Wednesday, March 26, 1997 1:51 PM
>> 
>> 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
>> 
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>If your image is 500 pixels by 500 pixels, but your IMG tag has "height=250
>width=250" attributes, Netscape, MSIE, and probably a number of other
>browsers will scale the displayed image to fit the specified dimensions. 
>This is arguably a mild abuse of the height and width attributes, and there
>isn't any guarantee that all browsers will honor those attributes when they
>disagree with the actual image, but that's what's going on.  
>
>Thomas Dowling
>Ohio Library and Information Network
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>
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