Monday, January 26, 2009

My Quest is at an End

So my prior blog posts, complaining about image scaling, are now moot thanks to a years old configuration in IE7.

Turns out that proper bicubic image scaling is turned off by default in IE7+. Gee thanks Microsoft. Who knew someone would want to actually see details in images they are resizing?

That said it's a stupid proprietary fix.

img {-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic;}

Other (better) browsers will just ignore this CSS declaration but it is required for images to scale smoothly in Internet Explorer. Can't they just make IE8 a WebKit based browser?

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