When setting sizes with CSS are you keeping the image aspect ratio the same? I'm not sure but I would imagine that changing the aspect ration would put in extra calculations when rendering the image and scrolling.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:39 PM, TheIvIaxx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Why even scale the image when you're already scrolling around to view > > it? > > The client wants to zoom in to specific parts of the image, or see the > whole thing at once > > > Agreed. If the image is super large you could always tile your images and > > use google maps api, the tile overlay ;-) > > that specific api is out as this is an internal site. I tried > throwing a bunch of tiles in instead of a single large image and it's > still slow. The whole load only what you need doesnt make sense here > as the client will always want to see the whole image. Plus having to > create the different zoom levels would be a lot of extra work and not > worth it in the end. They are large images, but nothing like maps :) > > I'll try some different CSS stuff to get IE useable. if not, i have > to go to silverlight :(
