Re: FLASH: OT: "Uglified" graphics... help!

[Catherine Kunicki]

Hi. In AOL -->Preferences --> WWW uncheck the default "Use Compressed Images

(Images load faster when on". AOL has a k limit, something like 3k in which

any image greater in k will be compressed (jpg'd) further by the aol app

itself before display. This is because their connection speeds suck.


The AOL browser is essentially a modified IE, and will share the IE cache

unless you specify another location. Move the cache for the AOL browser (or

IE)


This should take care of your problems.


Catherine


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HostCompCatAOL [dot] com

 (Mac HyperCard Forum as well as Mac OS Forums)


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From: ComposiMoaol [dot] com

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>Subject: FLASH: OT: "Uglified" graphics... help!

>Date: Mon, Jun 26, 2000, 4:52 AM

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> Ok, i have an interesting problem that i have never seen before. I am working

> on my new webpage, and i have a few jpg graphics for the buttons and logo...

> yes, this is an html site (but it does have a flash banner :-)    Anyway, if

> i start out with a freshly cleared browser cache in I.E.5, the buttons and

> everything look fine... but then i go to view the site with AOHell, and all

> of the graphics look like they have been seriously beaten up with the

> perverbial "ugly stick"... it looks like i saved them with full jpg

> compression.... i.e. no quality. Then the wierd thing happens... if i exit my

> page in aol, then reload it in I.E.5 the graphics go from really nice to

> "uglified" there also! would anyone care to offer a suggestion as to what i

> am doing wrong? Did i save them wrong? they look fine when you first look at

> them, but when you open them in aol they go to crap in a handbasket... ive

> never seen anything like it before.

> the url for the page i am referring to is

> http://www.digitalrodder.com/index2.htm

> The rest of the links work also, but they just simply go to "mirrors" of the

> home page.... by the way if you click on another button, use your browsers

> back button to return to the home page, and do not click on the "Home"

> button... it will go to my site that is running at the moment... not this

> one. but i created the mirrors to see if there was something going wrong with

> just the homepage... the rest of the sites resemble whatever the home page

> looks like.... so if the graphics suck on the H.P., the graphics will suck

> everywhere else also... If it helps any, this site was created in

> Dreamweaver..... could it be dreamweavers fault that this is happening? is

> there a button that i forgot to press before i saved them all?

> heeeeeelp..... please  :-)

>

> Sorry for the long, and OT post, but there are some awesome graphics folks on

> this list, so i figured they would be the right ones to talk to about this..

>

> Regards,

>

>        John Ward

> www.DigitalRodder.com

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