Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Mar 17 20:57:18 CDT 2010
That is a great link Stuart. I will keep that for future reference. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:27 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Did you just feel the Earth shift? Horses for courses. Bitmapped images (jpg,png,etc) will always be the preferred option for photographic type images with lots of colour depth. SVG is ideal for images which can be described in terms of straight and curved lines and shapes. Think of things like logos, graphs and charts, Google maps. The sort of thing you would use a GIF rather than a PNG for. These are generally much smaller in SVG than in any bitmapped format. With SVG, you don't need half a dozen different logo files in different sizes to use throughout your website. And you don't need lots of thumbnails to display small copies of fullsize images. The one file will render from a thumbnail to full page without any "jaggies". Just tell the browser how big a box to put it in. If you want to learn a bit about svg works, grab a copy of Inkscape from http://www.inkscape.org/ and play with it. -- Stuart On 17 Mar 2010 at 13:12, Jim Lawrence wrote. > I am honestly not sure Max but it can not be that hard. You can already > scale a bitmaps Jpeg graphic file, displayed on a web site given: > > <img src="max.jpg" alt="Prince Charming" title="Prince Charming" width="200" > height="133"> > > ...you can drop a few pounds by decreasing the width variable to say 180 > pixels. ;-) > > Jim > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:30 AM > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' > Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Did you just feel the Earth shift? > > > Does this mean, Jim, that I can load really small, fast loading graphics > onto a web page and IE9 will scale them for me to whatever size I want? How > would that work? > > Good news. > > Max > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:16 PM > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' > Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Did you just feel the Earth shift? > > In addition to Gustav's post here is some more about the new IE9 and its > adoption and support of HTML 5 > > http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/the-lowdown-on-ie9-s-scalable-vec > tor-graphics-677288 > > Please ignore the following if you are already conversant with graphics > files as I will be preaching to the converted. > > The use of vector graphics is very exciting if you are an illustrator. There > are basically two graphic types. Bitmap graphics which are created by such > apps as Photoshop, Painter etc and Vector graphics (or SVG Scalable Vector > Graphics) which are used by apps such as Illustrator, Flash and PS files. > Most people easily understand bitmap graphics as it is just a blob drawing > file. Vector graphics are illustrations saved and generated as math > objects/equations. > > The core of this whole graphic type is the B-Spline curve. By applying the > appropriate numbers every type of drawing object can be created...from > lines, linestrings, curves, arcs, circles, ellipses and spirals. By adding > the algorithms for width, transitions, transparency and fill it becomes a > complete graphic set. Also the file no longer has to be 'flattened' like > bitmap graphic files because layer or levels are just numbers so full 3D > effects are easy to produce. > > This also means that a vector graphic illustration can be reduced or > expanded to any size with no lost in resolution... from pin-point to > billboard. Complex graphic files can be very small and even self-repairing. > > If you are an online gamer, in the future, it will not be necessary to > download proprietary patches so you can hunt your favourite adversary as > everything will be able to run through the browser. > > This is what makes this whole evolution so exciting. Can I go so far as to > say it is about bloody time? > > Jim > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:12 AM > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Did you just feel the Earth shift? > > Hi all > > The IE9 beta is here: > > http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ > > It will not be available for Windows XP. > > /gustav > > > >>> accessd at shaw.ca 17-03-2010 05:28 >>> > Yes Kenneth, I had read it before, it is about time and it is excellent > news. 8-) > > Here is another article on HTML5 that is worthy of reviewing: > http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/does_html5_really_beat_flash_surprising > _results_of_new_tests.php > > Add the addition news of: > http://www.theage.com.au/technology/enterprise/word-excel-powerpoint--free-o > n-the-web-20100315-q7g7.html > > ..And things are looking up. > > Jim > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com