On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Huji <huji.huji(a)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.