elindholm
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I'm hoping one of the board's resident computer experts can help me with this. It's pretty complicated.
My laptop has a broadband wireless internet connection. All of my JPEG images in the browser look lousy -- it looks like the JPEG compression is turned up way too high. I can describe the symptom if anyone is interested, but if you've seen over-compressed JPEGs, you know what it looks like. I'm trying to figure out whether it's the browser or, somehow, something in the ISP that is downgrading the images before I see them.
I know it's not the display, because:
1. If I download the image (the same picture on the same site) on another computer, then transfer it to this one, it looks fine. For that matter, if I download a zip file containing what are supposed to be the same images, then unzip the folder, the "identical" images (downloaded as zip data, not as individual jpegs) look much, much better.
2. The images themselves are actually the wrong size, meaning wrong size in kilobytes, not pixels. If I click on a link that says, whatever, 80 KB, the file I get is only 25 KB or something. In other words, the image is downgraded before I even look at it.
I suspected it might be an Internet Explorer quirk, and even found a reference on Microsoft's help pages (saying that something similar was a "known issue"), but I just installed Firefox and had the same problem. And I've tried unchecking the "Enable Automatic Image Resizing" box under IE, but that doesn't help.
I can't tell whether I get the same problem with other image formats. If anyone wants to post a high-resolution GIF, I can look.
Thanks for any help!
My laptop has a broadband wireless internet connection. All of my JPEG images in the browser look lousy -- it looks like the JPEG compression is turned up way too high. I can describe the symptom if anyone is interested, but if you've seen over-compressed JPEGs, you know what it looks like. I'm trying to figure out whether it's the browser or, somehow, something in the ISP that is downgrading the images before I see them.
I know it's not the display, because:
1. If I download the image (the same picture on the same site) on another computer, then transfer it to this one, it looks fine. For that matter, if I download a zip file containing what are supposed to be the same images, then unzip the folder, the "identical" images (downloaded as zip data, not as individual jpegs) look much, much better.
2. The images themselves are actually the wrong size, meaning wrong size in kilobytes, not pixels. If I click on a link that says, whatever, 80 KB, the file I get is only 25 KB or something. In other words, the image is downgraded before I even look at it.
I suspected it might be an Internet Explorer quirk, and even found a reference on Microsoft's help pages (saying that something similar was a "known issue"), but I just installed Firefox and had the same problem. And I've tried unchecking the "Enable Automatic Image Resizing" box under IE, but that doesn't help.
I can't tell whether I get the same problem with other image formats. If anyone wants to post a high-resolution GIF, I can look.
Thanks for any help!
