Re: AOL Image Compression

Dear Petro and List,

We discovered that problem back in May 2000 and sent the following email to
all our AOL based clients.  Now this info is from 5/00 so I'm not positive
is that AOL URL is still active.

Hope this helps,
Elizabeth M. Lukan
President
High Aspirations, Inc.
http://www.highaspirationsinc.com

***copied message below***

America Online re-compresses and shrinks all the images on a website.  Seems
they don't trust us web designers to do our jobs - guess they haven't met us
yet!  So, the result you see may not be worthy of even viewing.

AOL's explanation for this can be found at
http://webmaster.info.aol.com/compress.html if you are interested.

You can turn off this compression, by doing the following:
Connect to AOL as you normally do.
Click the button on the icon bar at the top of your AOL screen that says,
"My AOL".
Select "Preferences" and another window of buttons will pop up.
Choose the "WWW" button (the one with the rather bland image of the "W" on
it.)
Yet another window appears, this time with tabs across the top, click the
one marked "Web Graphics".
There it is, uncheck the checkbox, and close out AOL completely (sign off.)
Start AOL again, and experience the web the way it was designed to look.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Petro Rondiak" <petro(at)revthree.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Cc: "F" <f(at)revthree.com>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:55 AM
Subject: AOL Image Compression


> Hi!
>
> I have been trying to get an image that appears perfectly in the non-AOL
> world to render properly in AOL. My customer is complaining about the text
> within the image is 'bleeding'.  The image is a hybrid: text on a photo. I
> think Adaptive .GIF is the way to go. Has anyone experienced this problem?
>
> The image can be viewed at http://www.revthree.net/momduo.gif. It should
> render properly to non-AOL users.
>
> Is there anyone using AOL that can view the image through AOL's browser
and
> let me know if it is distorted?
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Petro
> ___________________________
> Petro Rondiak
> Rev3 <Strategic Web Development>
> petro(at)revthree.com
> http://www.revthree.com

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