Firefox image zoom is bad
in [UK Linux]
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From: despen on 3 Dec 2009 14:10 Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> writes: > despen(a)verizon.net wrote: > >>Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> writes: >> >>> Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> wrote: >>> >>>>On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:13:55 +0000, Dave Farrance wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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 >>>> >>>>Looks rubbish. It's a known bug: >>>> >>>>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/217908 >>> >>> Thanks. It's difficult to make out from all that and its links to >>> bugzilla.mozilla.org and bugs.freedesktop.org quite who should fix this >>> and if anybody even cares 20 months later. This bug is horrible but it >>> looks like progress has gone quiet. Has anybody anywhere issued a build >>> of Firefox that somehow fixes or works around this? >> >>I think you must have missed something at Mozilla bug central. >>Latest comments on the problem were Nov 30, 2009. >> >>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422179 > > Somebody, not apparently a developer saying: please finally fix this. The > comments over the previous months being an idea or two floated but nothing > that raises my hopes. I guess I'd have to look at the developer mailing > list to see if anybody is seriously thinking of doing something. I've > added another "please fix this", which isn't the done thing on bugzillas, > but it's worth getting my account kicked off if somebody actually does > something. A few posts before it looked like they actually made a fix but there were some issues with it I didn't understand. |