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Posted by dorayme on 07/30/07 22:26
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"Joe (GKF)" <joedinmore@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Jul 30, 8:58 am, dorayme
> > I must say, it is rather curious to require less than perfect
> > sighted users to pay the price in fuzzy pictures. They have to
> > jump through some sort of hoop to avoid this I gather from the
> > links above...
> >
> > --
> > dorayme
>
> Not really much of a hoop in practice. Users just set a minimum font
> size size (Tools | Preferences | Advanced | Fonts, then type a number
> in a box) and it's done forever.
Yes, I gathered this from looking at the links provided by the
FR. If I used it for browsing it might bother me because the size
of the fonts wanted changes with my interest in a site and my
tiredness levels throughout the day. But I cannot say for sure. A
slight increase in image size might do and might even be
acceptable and welcome for the pics.
What would be great for this type of zooming would be more
sophisticated image algorithms. Even in good image manip prgms,
upping a pic beyond its natural limits, eg by bicubic adding of
pixels is not exactly great... but I suspect better than what
comes in free browsers... They used to say that bicubic was
slower than linear, but these days there is no difference really
in speed given modern processing power.
I did look at software that claimed to be able to enlarge pics
more respectably but I was not so impressed. It might just take
an intelligent being to know what to fill in for when it cmes to
enlarging. Reminds me of how some artists use small photos to
paint huge photo realistic pics... now these don't look bad!
> I like Opera and have used it as my main browser for years.
> I always design in Opera, then check in Moz and then cross my fingers
> and fire up IE; this on the basis of going from most to least
> compliant.
Recently did a fair new section of a website in mainly Safari
(with a smattering of iCab) and after several weeks took a first
look in IE on a Win box. Was pleasantly surprised to see only one
little thing not quite the same in IE 6, a top margin on a pic.
Perhaps I am unconsciously and in a cowardly way, avoiding all
those types of layouts that need to be messed with a lot for IE.
--
dorayme
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