Tuesday, March 07, 2006
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Do graphics within Internet Explorer on your new high DPI monitor have the jaggies?

Does your new Dell high resolution LCD display graphics within Internet Explorer that look like this?


Your computer manufacturer has enabled a setting within IE that attempts to scale graphics to their original intended size by correcting for your wide aspect or high resolution display. You can turn it off with the following registry hack. Graphics will now appear smaller but clean.

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"UseHR"=dword:00000000

Download the Reg files here:
http://download.binaryocean.com/IEUseHR.zip

kick it on DotNetKicks.com   Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:54:21 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [2]  | 
Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:40:43 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Good post, thanks.

But I'm searching for the next solution: How to make my web pages look OK in all those new PCs that the users will never fix with a hack, if they knew what a hack was.

Right now, all my years of graphics slaving is being undone by these new hi-dpi VDUs and the default 'factory' scaling.

I'm wondering did I build this problem in out of ignorance (choosing the wrong base dpi)?

Anyway, on with the search...
Phil
Friday, December 08, 2006 3:48:59 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Yeah, I've encountered the same issue with a very image reliant website I built recently

The client has one of these hi-dpi screens. Of course I've seen the registry hack, but come on... I mean, it's great yeah, but not really practical in the long run (You can't ask people to edit their registry just to use your site).

Although I can see why Microsoft have built this feature in, it is likely to make life quite difficult for us developers (I'm so pi**ed off I actually complained on the IE Blog)

Anyway, the only decent solution I can think of is possibly using Javascript to dynamically re-size the images back to their intended size.

Anyone know any good Javascript developers???
Chris
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