6 Replies Latest reply on Jan 8, 2009 3:57 PM by Newsgroup_User

image looks different in different browsers?

patrickpmm Jan 8, 2009 10:57 AM

I had set up a webpage and was having one little problem with it that I could not fix. For some reason, one image (the header of my page) looked blurry in Firefox but nice and crisp in Internet Explorer. If I played with the settings in Photoshop and resaved out as jpg to make the image look crisp and nice in Firefox, it looked mangled and choppy in IE.

After much testing and asking in other forums, I finally found a setting in DreamWeaver. Right mouse clicking the placeholder for the image in the table in DreamWeaver, I selected "Optimize" which brought up a window for the image and I checked "Progressive Browser Display".

Uploaded my hmtl index file to my host and voila, the image looks nice in both Firefox and IE.

So the question is, do I need to worry that somehow that setting has done something unforeseen but negative?

Any experience with this setting and anything to be worried about? This was driving me INSANE and it's the only thing I could find that fixed it.

1. Re: image looks different in different browsers?

landt5 Jan 8, 2009 11:48 AM (in response to patrickpmm)

Hi. JPGs lose information. Save them as Gifs or as Web enabled.
Like Show 0 Likes(0)

Actions
2. Re: image looks different in different browsers?

Newsgroup_User Jan 8, 2009 11:58 AM (in response to patrickpmm)

In your image editor, optimize and save your images for the web as
"progressive jpgs, so you won't need to do this in DW.

--
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com
Like Show 0 Likes(0)

Actions
3. Re: image looks different in different browsers?

Newsgroup_User Jan 8, 2009 11:59 AM (in response to patrickpmm)

Bad answer.

--
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com
Like Show 0 Likes(0)

Actions
4. Re: image looks different in different browsers?

patrickpmm Jan 8, 2009 2:03 PM (in response to Newsgroup_User)

hi Nancy thanks for your reply. question for you: as far as the end result, does it matter whether it is done in photoshop or dreamweaver? also, is there any reason to worry that using this setting in dreamweaver will cause problems? I can't for the life of me figure out why checking this off makes Fireforx display the image correctly while leaving it unchecked makes the image in firefox blurry.

TIA
Like Show 0 Likes(0)

Actions
5. Re: image looks different in different browsers?

Newsgroup_User Jan 8, 2009 3:23 PM (in response to patrickpmm)

>>Web enabled

What pray tell is that?

--

Walt

"landt5" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:gk5lb4$cke$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi. JPGs lose information. Save them as Gifs or as Web enabled.
Like Show 0 Likes(0)

Actions
6. Re: image looks different in different browsers?

Newsgroup_User Jan 8, 2009 3:57 PM (in response to Newsgroup_User)

I typically do all my image editing and optimizing for web in PShop ahead of
time (batch optimizing saves time). Without seeing what you're seeing, I
think something else may be amiss here. Can you post a link to a page with
both images so we can see what you're seeing?

--
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com
Like Show 0 Likes(0)

Actions

Go to original post

image looks different in different browsers?

1. Re: image looks different in different browsers?

2. Re: image looks different in different browsers?

3. Re: image looks different in different browsers?

4. Re: image looks different in different browsers?

5. Re: image looks different in different browsers?

6. Re: image looks different in different browsers?

Actions

More Like This

Legend