Fw: AOL Viewers needed for viewing jpeg bg

The following message was a thread received on the basics list. I am in
need of any AOL users to check this page for me to tell me if they see
my background tiling, for the background image is a jpeg and is wider
than 640 pixels. I am not sure if the message posted by Donna was meant
for all jpegs or just for jpegs that are marked up in image tags. Also,
I am not sure if the image will only start retiling if viewing in less
than 640x480.
If Donna is correct, the only way to stop a bg from tiling for AOL
viewers is to use gifs?

TIA,
Cindy K. Stanley
<http://www.ssswebworks.com/aoljpeg.htm>
page in question


>>From: Dennis O. Smith <smithd(at)fredonia.edu>
>>> I designed a site with the background image being 1280 pixels
>>> wide.  When viewed in Netscape 4.6, IE5
>>> it doesn't re-tile at almost any setting. But, when I view it at
home
>on
>>my wife's
>>> laptop on any setting through AOL it re-tiles.


>From: Donna M Smillie <dms(at)zetnet.co.uk>
>>From AOL Webmaster Info:
>>"JPEG's wider than 640 pixels -
>>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."
>>I think this may be the cause of your problem?



Cindy Stanley wrote:
>Huh? Would this take effect if using a jpeg for a background that is
>marked up in your body tag? Or is this just specifically for a jpeg
that
>is marked up in an img tag?

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