On Dec 23, 2007, at 9:09 AM, dean blackketter wrote: > > 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?
I thought one of the reasons for the change was to better resize non- square cover art into a square image with transparency. I know Ben spent a long time on that. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
