On Dec 23, 2007, at 8:07 AM, dean blackketter wrote: > Hm, I'm not sure why we would ever want cover art thumbnails to > be .png files. > > I can see why we use .png files for the placeholder artwork which has > rounded translucent corners and would composite nicely, but cover art > is (almost?) always rectangular and will be much smaller with JPEG. > > This might substantially help performance when browsing artwork > images in the Jive UI.
Yeah, they are PNG for transparency reasons. I think we could probably use JPEG for square images and PNG (GIF in IE) for non-square images, but I think it would mean changing the database to flag which images get served which way. To answer the previous question about pre-caching, we only pre-cache the PNG images. IE users will get their artwork resized on demand. Just another benefit to not using IE. ;) _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
