Ascinct opened this issue on Feb 16, 2005 ยท 8 posts
Ascinct posted Wed, 16 February 2005 at 9:51 PM
Hello all,
This is a technical question about the Mozilla 1.6 web browser.
While going through the galleries here, I am finding that some images are very heavily pixelated.
It wasnt until I switched to Internet Explorer (to compare the two browsers) that I realised, it was mozilla doing this, to the images!
It also appears to be affecting only progressive images.
(I dont even know the point behind the progressive Image option for the .jpg format - maybe some could shed some light!)
Ok my question is, why is this pixellation happening, and how do I prevent it?
Ive never had a problem with this before...at least I havent seen it before
Thankyou for your help,
Ascinct
P.S - if you want links to images it is affecting I can post them (I just need to ask the artist for permission first)
Cybermonk posted Wed, 16 February 2005 at 9:59 PM
I've just discovered this too. Happened to me in Netscape and Firfox(Mozilla). Not just pixelated but different parts of the image were not aligned properlly. Weird stuff. Could it be site related? I went over to 3dcommune and checked out there galleries and no such problem.
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Ascinct posted Wed, 16 February 2005 at 10:03 PM
Hmmm, Thankyou for the feed back! We need more info it seems, at least i know I am not alone! Thankyou, I'll just wait and see if this is site related, before I decide to reinstall mozilla.
Cybermonk posted Wed, 16 February 2005 at 10:16 PM
I thought I was going nuts there for a while. Thinking please not some weird picture warping virus. lol
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"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination".
Albert Einstein
Ascinct posted Wed, 16 February 2005 at 11:00 PM
lol
mateo_sancarlos posted Wed, 16 February 2005 at 11:01 PM
The progressive (scanned) jpeg format was devised when everyone was on dial-up, to allow slow connections to see an image while waiting for it to load. Now it's just a big annoyance, and people select it because they can, perhaps hoping somehow that it will help their image (it doesn't).
Ascinct posted Wed, 16 February 2005 at 11:07 PM
Ah, thankyou for the background info on the Progressive image thing! (I too thought it helped your image in some way, but I never used it - As My Moto - "If it arn't broke dont fix it!") :) Maybe Adobe should delete this feature, As what use is it to us now? and even when I was on dial-up I still couldnt see the image properly, until it was fully loaded! Then that way we wouldnt have these kinds of problems!
roxcat posted Thu, 17 February 2005 at 2:04 PM
I've also got this problem lately with Firefox 1.0. It helps with Ctrl+F5 though.