November 23, 2001
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An article over at webmasterbase.com entitled Cleaner, Sharper GIF & JPEG Images caught my attention today, and not because I need cleaner, sharper images. I really don’t. I was curious as to how they were going to approach the subject given that the creation of reasonable quality web imagery really depends on the type of visual content you are working with. Judging image quality can be an extremely subjective process. As it turns out, they didn’t have to worry about being overly subjective. The first sentence of the article is as follows:
“While they’re not absolutely necessary for Website functionality, images help improve the appearance of a site.”
A good point, but apparently, they’re not absolutely necessary in an article dedicated to creating cleaner, sharper images either. I am confounded as to how you can write an article with such a blatantly obvious requirement for visual examples, and not use any. And it’s not as if the article was written to appear strictly in a print publication where the subtler differences between low resolution graphics files may have been difficult to present. It’s a freaking online article about GIFs and JPEGs, without any GIFs and JPEGs. Instead of coming away with even a tiny bit of enlightenment, I came away absolutely boggled.
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