Comments on: Firefox 3 Beta 5 – blurring images

By: seven

seven — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:58:17 +0000

Yo Francisco! It’s a nasty bug. Checkout – http://www.nivas.hr/blog/2008/06/18/firefox-3-blurring-mystery/

By: Francisco Cifuentes

Francisco Cifuentes — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:43:53 +0000

not to mention how much does this bilinear filtering destroys, foe example, Pixel Art Comunity sites such as http://www.pixeljoint.com, pixelation.com, or any other place with integrated zoom scripts.

I do ignore if someone is happy with this featurem but i personally find that it literally destroys any planned icon/element on a website.

By: nivas.hr blog » Blog Archive » Firefox 3 blurring mystery

nivas.hr blog » Blog Archive » Firefox 3 blurring mystery — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:03:11 +0000

[...] 3 at this point but Mozilla dev will implemented the fix in v3.0.1. It’s interesting to see that Daemon first wrote about this in April 8th and Mozilla first acknowledged it on 13 of May. Well, another mystery well [...]

By: nivas.hr blog » Blog Archive » FireFox 3 Release candidate 3 - rendering still screwed up

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:36:20 +0000

[...] to the post i made some time ago, while Beta 5 was popular, the newly released RC3 is still blurring small icons. New rendering [...]

By: Daemon

Daemon — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:12:13 +0000

Hey Mike. Nice to see you here.

No, we are not scaling images, of course, not in HTML, not in CSS, not anywhere. We have just checked more sites on the web that use small icons, and particular icons are blurred. We are trying to find the source of the problem, and all points to Firefox trying to smoothly render images that are placed on weird percentage, or on half the pixel. For example, if we are placing image at 33%, and that falls down to non-integer pixel ( 33% of let’s say 100 pixels), Firefox will try to render that image at non-integer pixel and blur it in the process.

This is serious issue that you boys need to look at, because it is impossible to backwards tweak all of the sites.

By: Mike Shaver

Mike Shaver — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:06:39 +0000

Are you scaling the images in CSS? We do use a different scaling algorithm as of beta 5, to improve the way images look when full page zoom and other up-sampling cases are in play. Vlad Vukicevic (one of our top graphics hackers) has a post about it at http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/03/18/a-little-more-cairo-just-for-you/ if you’d like more information.