FLASH: OT: bmp image scaling

[Laura Mollett]

> How are you supposed to scale something with bitmaps?

> They get ugly.


Recently someone (Burt and I'm sorry I've lost his last name somehow) on the

hwg-techniques list put up a page with graphics that scale without too much

quality loss (there is still some) by allowing the browser to resize the

image (using %s in the width tag). The trick seems to have been to provide a

width percentage but not height, keeping the proportions the same but

allowing scaling. (At least I think this is how he did it and it seems to

work on my sites. I suppose it would work equally well to provide height but

not width.)


The url is: http://harmco.hypermart.net/test/top.html


I think this would work equally well for flash movies with bmp images,

although it may be kind of complicated when using framesets with more than

one image in separate frames (I haven't yet been able to get the proportions

right in that case). It also might work better to plan the image to fit in a

very large screen size and then allow the browser to scale down, as there is

more quality loss if the image is enlarged. It would still take some careful

tweaking of the image size in the first place to make sure the proportions

work well at several resolutions. In any case, it's a cool idea and worth

playing with :)


Laura


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