Could it be the way IE 5 interprets specific image formats? If the image,
(3744 pixels wide x 3384 pixels high), is a JPG, it gets cropped. If it is a
GIF it displays without a problem.
What's even more puzzling is the fact that the JPG file is approximately 3
meg, while the GIF, which displays properly, is 12 meg.
Since IE 5 can display a wide GIF, I was wondering if there is any way to
force it, modify it, or whatever, to also display a wide JPG?
If the GIF files weren't so large, we would call it a day and use them
instead of JPGs. However, we have to maintain a certain level of image
clarity, and JPGs can do that without getting too huge in file size.
Kenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Grewal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mac Internet Explorer Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 5:24 PM
Subject: RE: Why Does IE 5.0 For The Mac Crop Wide Images?
No, the limitation is one of the MacOS APIs we use to display images
under Mac OS 8/9. If you need to view larger images in a browser
window, you will need to have your users upgrade to Mac OS X where IE
supports larger images.
IE is not optimized for viewing images that large nor will we ever do
the work to improve support for images that large. Your users will have
a much better experience if they download the images to their local
machines and use a dedicated tool or image viewing/editing application
to view images that larger.
-Jimmy
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenn and Amy Cicigoi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:10 PM
To: Mac Internet Explorer Talk
Subject: Re: Why Does IE 5.0 For The Mac Crop Wide Images?
Is there any way to modify IE 5 for the Mac to allow for images beyond
2000
pixels? We have a group of users (approximately 60) who require this
functionality from IE 5.
Kenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Pettit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mac Internet Explorer Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:45 PM
Subject: RE: Why Does IE 5.0 For The Mac Crop Wide Images?
Sivan was right in his previous message. The 4096 limit is the
theoretical maximum. We intentionally selected a smaller practical limit
because a user is more likely to run into memory problems that prevent
--anything-- from being displayed if we allow very wide images.
We chose 2000 pixels because it was much wider than a typical monitor,
and increased the likelihood that we would be able to display an image.
--bp
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Pettit
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:34 PM
To: Mac Internet Explorer Talk
Subject: RE: Why Does IE 5.0 For The Mac Crop Wide Images?
JPEG images that are extremely wide are cropped. In general, this
usually happens only with extremely wide JPEGs, and only of the full
color variety (there's a seldom used 8-bit JPEG format). The effect is
cropping of pixels in 32bpp images beyond the 4096th.
For compatibility, we use QuickDraw pixmaps for our imaging, and Color
Quickdraw, as designed by Apple, has a limitation where the top two bits
of the rowbytes field are reserved. Leaving 14 bits for rowBytes yields
a maximum of 2^^14 ==> 16384 bytes per row ==> 4096 32-bit pixels per
row. Rather than fail on wider images, we crop those pixels falling
outside the boundary.
This was an acceptable trade-off for compatibility, given that IE is a
web browser. If you download the image, you still get all the data.
--bp
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 9:51 AM
To: Mac Internet Explorer Talk
Subject: Re: Why Does IE 5.0 For The Mac Crop Wide Images?
on 5/31/01 4:39 AM, Kenn and Amy Cicigoi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Why does this happen? Is there a way to get IE5 on the Mac to display
the
> entire image?
I loaded up one of the maps from space the other day in IE. It's several
thousand pixels across. IE had no problems with it.
Including an example URL would probably be helpful.
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