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Re: Bold: Make Your Words Stand Out

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I truly honestly have no idea what this is. Is it a blogging platform? A CMS?

My first thought was it was a new npm package for wrapping bold and/or strong tags around arbitrary DOM nodes. Was slightly disappointed.

So I am not alone! Thought this was a satire of sorts at first.

Re: Bold: Make Your Words Stand Out

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I understand the large file size is a problem, but please don't suggest anyone use JPEG for images. It's a terrible format and I wish it would go away. It ruins artwork. I see the developer changed it to a JPEG and named it *.GIF. Weird, at any rate the problem is the large size of the image 2560x1600 @24. Even on my Surface Pro the image is far too large. Does anyone have a link the the original PNG? It would make a…

JPEG doesn't ruin art any more than MP3 ruins music. I'd never send a compressed JPEG to a printer, just like I wouldn't send an MP3 to be mastered. But most users won't be able to tell the image quality difference if you fine tune the compression level, but they will notice a slow loading page.

As a pixel artist, I can say that: yes, JPEG does ruin art. I'm an artist, not a web developer so my perspective is different.
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