On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Most wouldn't. But even for browsers with SVG
support, MediaWiki
thumbnails to PNG (because the browser SVG rendering is, at present,
still very slow and rather buggy).
Could be feature creep but I was just thinking those few whose
browsers do support tiff might for whatever reason prefer thumbnails
which are in fact a scaled tiff.
I couldn't think of a good reason for wanting that. Direct access to the full
TIFF, yes - but you have that by clicking through the description page to the
file. That will trigger the browser's native rendering, just as with svg. I
expect that for the things for wich you want native tiff support, you would want
to have full resolution anyway.
-- daniel