On Dec 23, 2007, at 6:03 AM, Andy Grundman wrote: > > 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. Do you mean square or rectangular? I'd think that cover art should always use JPEG since it's always rectangular, without transparency. Placeholder/service artwork can continue to use PNG. This will save a bunch of bandwidth and be faster to boot.
With that rule (cover art vs. service/placeholder) we wouldn't need to modify the DB, right? > _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
