Petty Civil Disobedience

[jamesd at echeque.com]

jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
>> In the course of doing this, I discovered that on windows, Netscape
>> makes jpegs of naked pretty girls look like crap.

At 08:36 PM 3/10/96 -0500, Mutant Rob wrote:
> It would take much longer to process the image without dithering of
> some sort.  Displaying jpegs in high quality is CPU intensive.

You have this ass backwards.

Dithering slows it down, but is needed for quality, since they presumably 
do not wish to optimize the palette. 

The point is that they do a lousy job on dithering.  So does Microsoft
explorer.  They probably purchased the identical code from some clot.
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