hi-res images on teh interwebs
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- randommail0
has everyone gone mental?!
FACEPALM
- elahon0
LOL @ "This is a load of cock"
- ukit0
Well, sure, if you upload a 1000 pixel image to your site and then style it to display at 10 x 10 px, when you zoom in there will be more detail.
Awesome, let's save all our images that way then to accomodate the guy on his macbook air who wants to zoom in, lol.
But seriously, it doesn't have to do with dpi, which is a printing term, only the size of the image.
- I agree - who zooms these images ffs. but it's interesting that it works.hans_glib
- Just render everything as SVG - you can zoom forever:)ukit
- this guy would love that - he'd be happy for hourshans_glib
- to be honest i zoom alot of sites. this one included. FF saves my zoom for each site. So his point is valid about using higher res I suppose.HAYZ1LLLA
- ... suppose.HAYZ1LLLA
- hans_glib0
Well it kind of is.
He was enlarging the page on his macbook air, and complaining about the lack of resolution on a logo. I maintained that you couldn't get a higher res on a browser but now it seems I was wrong.
- ukit0
Yeah but that's just because it's a larger image. Not really what he was talking about at all.
- hans_glib0
actually it turns out he may have a point
have a look at this test I just ran
http://www.thenewcow.com/qoobeen…
the top pic is 200 x 200
the other two are the same 400 x 400 image, the middle one constrained to 200 x 200 px by the htmlif you zoom the page, the middle image doesn't pixellate like the top image (well on mac safari and mac firefox it doesn't)
wow - I never knew that!
- ukit0
The computer doesn't display at 72 dpi or 300 dpi or any dpi...
It just displays the number of pixels in the image.
So really you can save at 72 dpi, 7200 dpi or 1 dpi, it doesn't matter.
- more specifically, different screens have different ppi values (dpi equivalent)monospaced
- screens have different dpi, normals have 72dpijadrian_uk
- eficks0
how does the iphone "retina" display play into this. seems this currently is definitely affects app developers. but maybe when these kinds of displays become more common it will affect more?
- set0
TELL HIM HE'S
A COCKFACE !!
- i did - but a little more politelyhans_glib
- 'You, sir, have the visage of a penis. An uncircumcised one. Perhaps one that's not quite hygenic.'Continuity
- heheset
- turns out his face isn't so cocklike after all.... o_Ohans_glib
- what's your problem wit uncircumcised penises?jadrian_uk
- Oh, I have none.Continuity
- ukit0
Dpi is irrelevant for web output.
- dasmeteor0
a pixel is a pixel.
- jadrian_uk0
it's about the monitor, you need a high def monitor to display higher resol
- Continuity0
I'm pretty sure browsers will display images > 72dpi. The question is: do you really want a 300 MB jpeg on your site?
- hans_glib
I've just come back from a meeting where an SEO specialist claimed it was possible to have images at a higher resolution than 72 dpi on a website.
This is a load of cock, isn't it? No browser will display an image at a higher res than 72dpi... will it?
If you constrain the size with html then it will crush the pixels accordingly, and if you don't the image will just display much larger than intended.
Or have I got that wrong/fallen behind the curve?