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From: despen on 2 Dec 2009 19:26
Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> writes:

> Original image:
>
> http://anvil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/alice1.png
>
> Hit zoom in Firefox (ctrl-+) three times using both Firefox for Linux and
> Firefox for Windows -- and look at the difference:
>
> http://anvil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/alice1-zoom-comp.png
>
> The Linux version isn't anti-aliassed and it's got jaggies all over it.
> Why? X-windows can handle it, obviously, since I'm running it on Wine.
>
> (I'm using Mandriva 10.0 with the nVidia proprietary X.org driver.)

Mandriva 10.0?

Do you really mean Mandrake 10.0?

I didn't think Firefox went back that far.
From: TJ on 2 Dec 2009 21:26
despen(a)verizon.net wrote:
> Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Original image:
>>
>> http://anvil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/alice1.png
>>
>> Hit zoom in Firefox (ctrl-+) three times using both Firefox for Linux and
>> Firefox for Windows -- and look at the difference:
>>
>> http://anvil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/alice1-zoom-comp.png
>>
>> The Linux version isn't anti-aliassed and it's got jaggies all over it.
>> Why? X-windows can handle it, obviously, since I'm running it on Wine.
>>
>> (I'm using Mandriva 10.0 with the nVidia proprietary X.org driver.)
>
> Mandriva 10.0?
>
> Do you really mean Mandrake 10.0?
>
> I didn't think Firefox went back that far.

More likely he was too lazy to type "2010.0." He didn't say which
version of Firefox, either, or if the Windows and Linux Firefoxes were
the same version.

TJ
From: Aragorn on 3 Dec 2009 00:45
On Thursday 03 December 2009 01:26 in alt.os.linux.mandriva, somebody
identifying as despen(a)verizon.net wrote...

> Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Original image:
>>
>> http://anvil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/alice1.png
>>
>> Hit zoom in Firefox (ctrl-+) three times using both Firefox for Linux
>> and Firefox for Windows -- and look at the difference:
>>
>> http://anvil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/alice1-zoom-comp.png
>>
>> The Linux version isn't anti-aliassed and it's got jaggies all over
>> it.
>> Why? X-windows can handle it, obviously, since I'm running it on
>> Wine.
>>
>> (I'm using Mandriva 10.0 with the nVidia proprietary X.org driver.)
>
> Mandriva 10.0?
>
> Do you really mean Mandrake 10.0?
>
> I didn't think Firefox went back that far.

It didn't. ;-) In Mandrake 10.0 PowerPack, you had Konqueror, the
complete Mozilla suite of the time, Epiphany - which was a slimmed down
Mozilla browser - and the freeware version of Opera.

And of course, there were always lynx and links too for "character
mode"-only browsing. ;-)

--
*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
From: Dave Farrance on 3 Dec 2009 01:41
TJ <TJ(a)noneofyour.business> wrote:

>despen(a)verizon.net wrote:
>> Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> writes:
>>>
>>> http://anvil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/alice1-zoom-comp.png
>>>
>>> The Linux version isn't anti-aliassed and it's got jaggies all over it.
>>> Why? X-windows can handle it, obviously, since I'm running it on Wine.
>>> (I'm using Mandriva 10.0 with the nVidia proprietary X.org driver.)
>>
>> Mandriva 10.0?
>> Do you really mean Mandrake 10.0?
>> I didn't think Firefox went back that far.
>
>More likely he was too lazy to type "2010.0." He didn't say which
>version of Firefox, either, or if the Windows and Linux Firefoxes were
>the same version.

Mandrake 10.0 was far enough in the past that I'd forgotten that it
existed. Sorry about that. Mandriva 2010.0, wine 1.1.32, and Firefox
3.5.5 for both.

--
Dave Farrance
From: Dave Farrance on 3 Dec 2009 03:13
The lack of anti-aliasing on the Firefox Linux 3.5.5 zoom looks as bad
with photographs as with line-drawings. Since recent flat-panel monitors
tend to have a fine pixel-pitch, web images often benefit from zooming,
but not if it looks like this:

http://anvil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/planes-ff-cmp.jpg

So does anybody know if there's some hidden option to enable
anti-aliasing, or if there's any other fix for this?

--
Dave Farrance
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