Neat!
“Neat!” — that was the first thing that escaped my mouth after installing the Second Beta of Mozilla’s Firefox 3. In fact it’s nothing so very special but the new Firefox features one little detail that I’ve been waiting for since my first contact with web-browsers about twelve years ago…
The thing that totally sells Firefox 3 to me is the automatic bilinear image interpolation of wrong scaled images rather than nearest neighbor which I see as a huge step in web-aesthetics. No more blotchy pixels when a — I’m using quotation marks here — “web designer” doesn’t care about bandwidth and download time and forces a 1600*1200 pixels JPEG via the <img width=”120″> command into a thumbnail that takes fuckin’ forever to load. Argh!
Especially for the promenadeblog.com this “new” interpolation 1 method comes in handy when you view some of my larger photos via the Thickbox on your non-geeky screens some of you have — especially you, you the one who visited this site with the ancient 640*480 resolution! Get a new screen! This is the 21st century! This is as good as it gets!
So I strongly advise you to download the Beta and enjoy the new interpolation of Firefox 3 while Yahoo! Mail won’t work well with it
- or let’s say: “any interpolation” ↩
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