[TriLUG] image-platform problem

[Scott Lambdin via TriLUG]

(looks less nebulous and more nebulous)

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 11:21 AM, Scott Lambdin <lopaki at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sWLw075XJY0/VoEgaHbCi0I/AAAAAAAAAPU/
> 7LORHfuBDK0ZAJxC1b_bZeA0KXMLRfDsQCEwYBhgL/
>
> gets bigger picture
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>> mver,
>>
>> When I examine the image at the link you provided, I see that its size is
>> only 3.7 kB. If one tries to view it larger than that, it is bound to
>> pixilate. No way around that. If it is used on a full sized web page, you
>> could display it as tiles if you want to fill-up the screen.
>>
>> How did I find this info? In most browsers, right-click on the image and
>> choose View Image Info. In Firefox, click on the General tab and see the
>> title of the image with "(JPEG Image 140 x 93 pixels)" . . .  size 3.69 kB,
>> which is approximately the product of 140 x 93. That will pixilate on
>> virtually any screen if you try to expand it.
>>
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>> On 03/26/2018 02:01 PM, mver via TriLUG wrote:
>>
>>> Dear TriLUG'ers
>>>
>>> I have a website, courtesy of Mr. Google, on which I have an image that
>>> works quite well as a background for header text.
>>>
>>> The image is at this link:
>>>
>>> https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sWLw075XJY0/VoEgaHbCi0I/A
>>> AAAAAAAAPU/7LORHfuBDK0ZAJxC1b_bZeA0KXMLRfDsQCEwYBhgL/w140-h9
>>> 3-p/GS3513954.jpg
>>>
>>> and was inserted on the page with select | enter | etc.    NO PROBLEM.
>>>
>>> However, that image link, when pasted into Chrome, appears as a teeny
>>> part of the screen and does not fill the browser window from side to side.
>>>
>>> AND, when one attempts to use it in non-laptop platforms (phone and
>>> tablet) the little image pixilates badly.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on why it works in the web page site but not the Twitter or
>>> Facebook sites?
>>>
>>> And on how to solve the problem, i.e. get the image to behave as it does
>>> on the web site?
>>>
>>> Link to the [political] website is:
>>>
>>> https://sites.google.com/s/0B03ZCxlTaK_wVEpycDZHMHJzRjQ/p/0B
>>> 03ZCxlTaK_wdU1xRnRWV3VzeTA/edit
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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