Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 09/21/06 11:11

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, dorayme wrote:

> "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
....
> > you can use CSS to size them in em units. See discussion at
> > http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/img-em-size.html
>
> Yes, may I add a thought: In general, deterioration in quality is
> far more noticeable in scaling up than down. It is true of even
> good image editors for reasons that are not hard to understand.
> And it would likely be even more true of lower class image
> editing functions in browsers. So, website makers that do want to
> occasionally employ this em based dimensioning should consider
> allowing the natural size to be a little bigger than what they
> guess would be the ideal for the majority of users text size
> settings.

Agreed. I had a dim recollection of trying to say something very
similar myself - maybe it was somewhere in a usenet posting - but it
seems it didn't actually get onto my web page yet. I'll add a comment
about it.

thanks

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