Re: Magnifying JPEGs viewed in Safari?

> > Well obviously if you start with a pic that is 300 x 200 and zoom to 
> > 800% its going to be a blur.  Start with 3000 x 2200 
> 
> It is not good to even begin talking about a pic this size for a web 
> page for normal public consumption. 

Well if you want good detail, you're going to have to opt for high 
resolution from the start.  I realize this is rare - and I don't expect 
it of course.  But that's just the way it works.  
 
> But, to be fair to you, you are touching on a technique that I have 
> [played with myself. Now and then I want a pic to be able to grow and 
> shrink with the text size. Under modest text size changes, this can work

> very well at least on Mac machines (I have experienced poor results on 
> Windows which have tempered my enthusiasm and am still investigating 
> this.). 

If you want a graphic to maintain perspective to the text, you need to 
view it in Opera.  The OS doesn't make any difference as Opera does it 
with both OS's.  If there is another browser that does this, please let 
us know.  Opera has many glitches and hiccups - I'd love to ditch it but 
so far haven't found anything that can work web pages with such logic.

> To make this work, and for all browsers, not just special zooming ones 
> like Opera, it is best to prepare the pics to be good for folk with 
> eyesight that needs a few 'notches up' of the text size. So you prepare 
> a pic, to give rough figures, that will normally be seen at 300px wide 
> at wider. In other words, you get your master pic, a huge one from a 
> modern camera and you size it to perhaps 500px. 

You mean 500 x 300?  If so that's a pretty awful quality of detail.  A 
minimum is 1024 x 768 I would think.  Then at least its going to 
reasonably sharp at full screen size for most people.

What monitor do you use? You say you use the best.  I would then presume 
its running at 3840 x 2400 since that is the best resolution available.  
I realize that is quite specialized......so maybe you're using a typical 
30" LCD at 2560 x 1600.  The Dell Supersharp is supposed to be the 
finest.  Apparently both the Dell and HP models run circles around the 
Apple 30". And for way less money especially in the used arena.  I've 
seen several nice Dells go for less than $750. You'd be hard pressed to 
find an Apple 30" for anything near that price.