Making little things out of big things
As proof that sometimes randomly browsing the web while procrastinating from boring work (Saturday night year-end accounting and tax organizing, for instance) can sometimes be useful, a web trick:
Flickr engineer “schill” found out that in order to natively re-size images on the client side without making them look like 8-bit dog vomit in MSIE7, you can assign CSS property “-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;“. For MSIE6 you can use the good ol’ AlphaImageLoader filter (however he doesn’t mention this might kill your ability to use z-index, a minor detail which will no doubt drive someone batty nonetheless)
In good browsers the rendered image quality ranges from OK to pretty-good, without doing anything. So in those (rare) cases where “OK” is Good Enough ™, this will be a huge benefit to mankind.
The thumbnail here is 265×241 natively, but has these tricks applied to be 50×50, and they make a huge difference. And also, it is hilarious.
