Re: disappearing gif & java applet

by "Cindy Stanley" <stanleysupport(at)prodigy.net>

Date:	Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:34:18 -0400
To:	"Graphics - HWG" <hwg-graphics(at)mail.hwg.org>
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From: Sandy Stillwell <wallama(at)eskimo.com>
>"Some images wider than 640 pixels will be resized to a width of 640
pixels
>after being compressed by the JG compression software. This a
limitation of
>the compression software that is used for compressing photo images. If
it is
>necessary to the design of a web site to use images that are wider then
640
>pixels, a GIF must be used in order to insure that the image will not
be
>resized. "

This apparently is not true for images that are specified as an
attribute of the body tag, for I have questioned this myself on one of
the HWG lists (I believe the Graphics list) not too long ago. I have had
AOL users check my 1600 pixel wide jpeg background, and all that checked
it said it did not tile.

--
Cindy K. Stanley

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