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Browser Image Resizing

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First post, by Great Hierophant

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You know what really grinds my gears? Internet Explorer 7 was a perfectly fine browser, especially because it supports tabbed browsing and loads quickly, unlike Firefox and the rest (being part of the OS). Then I decided to upgrade to IE8. Everything appeared to be fine, until I browsed over to Mobygames. Mobygames has a large depository of uncompressed, pixel-accurate screenshots of older DOS games. Mostly I am talking about 320x200 resolution screenshots, generally in the gif or png format. The site also doubles the size of the screenshots by default. In IE7, these double-sized screenshots are crisp and razor sharp, with each pixel being displayed twice, horizontally & vertically. In IE8, the picture is doubled in size, but the image appears to have filtering applied to it. This is not the ideal way to resize these images. I can discover no way to turn this off, so I am stuck with having to continue to use IE8 or keep the image sizes small.

Does anyone know of a way to turn this off in IE8? Is there a current browser that rezises the picture in a way like IE7?

Reply 1 of 2, by robertmo

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opera:config
Multimedia
uncheck Interpolate Images

Tools
Preferences
Shortcuts
Keboard Setup
Opera 9.2 Compatible
Ok
restart opera

now ctrl+ zooms in this way: 2x,3x,4x,5x,6x

Reply 2 of 2, by Great Hierophant

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Internet Explorer 8 uses bicubic interpolation when resizing images, Internet Explorer 7 uses nearest neighbor interpolation.