the image rendering in IE is not sufficient esp. with photo contents about sky, ground. can we tweak that? such as to ACDSEE engine. or tune it to a better looking one. thanks.

i searched internet but no hit. can any mentor gimme a clue?

Ideas in order of difficulty:

1. IE allows plugins. Check if you can build a plugin to render images better. Since you will not be able to reverse engineer the IE rendering engine, you plugin better INTERCEPT the image requests made to IE engine, render it on your own and send result to IE.

2. Reverse engineer the entire IE engine (prolly DLLs, OCX, etc..) and build your own dll (or use the ACDSEE dll) via function hooks....

3. Forgit about it and use Opera. Duh!

Either way, keep posting to know how it turned out

Have Phun

I'll be the first to admit that I know nothing about image rendering, but I would think the complaints you have are specific to the pictures themselves (what compression was used on them, etc.), not the renderer.

Can someone point to documentation explaining that the same image file will look different in two different browsers?

Not exactly documentation, but more of a live example, http://www.woodmann.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6479

Yes, I posted a reply in that thread about a year ago: http://www.woodmann.com/forum/showpost.php?p=40965&postcount=17 ("http://www.woodmann.com/forum/showpost.php?p=40965&postcount=17")

I still stand by my first statement above ("I would think the complaints you have are specific to the pictures themselves (what compression was used on them, etc.), not the renderer.", though I guess I was proven wrong regarding how "the same image file will look different in two different browsers".

The example posted above is a little special case, and is only due to the fact that IE does not support the "special feature" of an alpha channel in png files. This should not affect rendering of "sky, ground" and other things in normal pictures though.

pls download the attached picture. and compare with the looking in IE and acdsee pls. sample image: look wavy in IE

I don't see any differences. I'm using IE v5.00.2919.630715. I don't see any of the claimed "waviness" that you mention. But I believe I have found your problem. You are probably using 16-bit color depth setting. ACDsee is probably doing a bit of antialiasing on the image, while IE and the kernal bitmap rendering engine doesn't. When I try 16-bit color depth, I see the differences.

Thanks a lot for dispel the enigma. i used to change the color depth to 16bit since the S3Trio64 age. So, from now on, I will be back to the main trend: 32bit


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