Summer of Code idea: improve khtml zoom function

[Fela Winkelmolen]

On Friday 05 May 2006 15:58, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> On Friday 05 May 2006 15:28, Fela Winkelmolen wrote:
> > here is a draft of the proposal, I'll definitively apply it to google
> > tomorrow I think :)
> >
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> > Summary: Improved zoom function and printing configuration in khtml
> >
> > Name: Fela Winkelmolen
> > Email: nimatar at gmail.com (preferred way of contact)
> > IM: nimatar at jabber.org
> > IRC: nimatar || unpofuori @ freenode && azzurra
> > Location: Genoa, Italy.
>
> Oh, you too are in Genoa. Cool. We should meet one of these times.
>
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> > ...
> >
> >
> > The idea is to make the renderer be able to zoom in three different
> > ways: - fast zooming (ugly), possibly using the zooming code that
> > should already be somewhere to zoom images where the size is specified
> > in the html code, using fast zooming algorithms to scale the images
> > - smooth zooming (slow), using some other, more sophisticated image
> > zooming code (I saw showFoto scales images nicely, for example)
> > - zoom text only (fastest).
>
> I don't think this is needed. KHTML already uses smooth scaling for the
> images anyways.

Yes? I've checked and showFoto scales the images much more nicely that khtml 
(unless it has changed since v3.5.2). But I think it uses a slower 
algorithm.

>
> Ciao,
> Luciano

ciao :)
fela
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