Screen shot IE7 with full-page zoom showing ugly pixels
In some circumstances, raster images can get scaled up or down on the client side:
- Small source image scaled up to a large size [[Image:Tiny.png|300px]]
- GIF image over $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea
- Any image scaled on server with no GD or ImageMagick scaling engine available
- Any image when browser's full-page zoom is used
Many modern browsers use a pretty scaling method, but by default Internet Explorer uses nearest-neighbor which looks awful.
Apparently, IE 7 can switch in bicubic scaling via a simple bit of custom CSS:
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/11/12/on-ui-quality-the-little-things-client-side-image-resizing/
If there aren't unpleasant side effects it may be wise to use this.
IE 6 can perhaps do this with the scary filter we're using for Alpha PNGs or a variant, but it's probably not worth expending effort on IE 6 at this point.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/11/12/on-ui-quality-the-little-things-client-side-image-resizing/
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