People want crappy looking pictures by default

December 23, 2008
by keli

An old advice given to us in the ancient 90's was that you should never resize images in the browser, as this would be waste of bandwidth. In their infinite wisdom, Microsoft decided to punish the infidels by making browser resized images look like crap.

Turns out this can be fixed by a single line of CSS, as told by that Joel guy: From the Department of Badly Chosen Defaults.