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Why such large images in mobile safari? - the311guy - Dec 27, 2011 05:39 PM
http://bit.ly/ti5vrH
Why is this image showing larger than the iPhone4 screen in mobile safari? The width of the image is 640px, the iphone screen is 640px.
Any ideas?
RE: Why such large images in mobile safari? - BeyondCloister - Dec 27, 2011 06:40 PM
The iPhone 4 screen is a retina display. This means that effectively the screen is 320px wide because it displays 2 pixels in the same space as 1 pixel on a non-retina display. So in an app you would display a 640px wide image in a 320px width on an iPhone 4 compared to a 320px wide image in a 320px width on an iPhone 3 or an iPad.
Safari must be displaying the source image as a non retina image and thus taking up double the width you are expecting.
RE: Why such large images in mobile safari? - the311guy - Dec 29, 2011 06:26 PM
Ah... thank you!