Simetrical wrote:
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Huji huji.huji@gmail.com wrote:
I had my own reasonings in support of stopping images less than 120*120 to scale up. Duesentrieb materialized my idea in few words excellently while we were chatting over IRC: "scaling up generally doesn't make sense. maybe it would be nice to be able to force it in some cases, not sure. if that should be allowed, it might be best to leave it to the client". If you ever use a slow internet connection and browse one of the galleries of small icons on Commons, you will notice how page load is extended merely because the images are being downloaded in a larger (in KB) scaled-up (thus no more nice looking) sizes.
Generally we don't rely on client-side scaling, because in many cases it's awful in quality.
Scaling up (eg when requested explicitly) is always left to the client, as:
a) it's going to look awful anyway ;)
b) no sense making, storing, and transferring a larger image
-- brion