Anybody else notice that images in Dolphin & stock browser appear somewhat blurry and pixelated, particularly on Honeycomb tablets? It appears that these browsers try to fit the page to the screen and end up stretching images out a bit resulting in a soft appearance. I've tested this on my own Web site which uses 900px images and no matter what I can't get Dolphin or the stock browser to render it 1:1 as 900px. Instead the images seem to stretch the entire screen on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 (1280px wide). The result is a soft and pixelated images.
Alternatively, Opera Mobile seems to do a better job at rendering the images. As they do appear 1:1 and look every bit as sharp as how I see it on my desktop monitor.
I tried disabling 'Fit Web page to screen' in Dolphin's settings but that did not change anything in regards to the image rendering. Is there any way to achieve sharper images using the stock browser or Dolphin?
The default browser (and Dolphin) try to scale images to fit the width of the tablet. I figured out that by going into the browser's debug mode and toggling "Use Wide ViewPort" it disabled image scaling. The result is you get sharp images that are at 1:1 pixels. I just wish that there was a way to have this permanent instead of always having to go into the about:debug mode whenever the browser is loaded.
I'm not sure how to go about doing this in Dolphin HD or Pad versions though, since I'm not familiar with how to get into their debug modes.
I assume you are on KG6, if so you could either modify the framework or since he seems like a nice guy you could ask froli13 to mod it for you to run wide viewport, there is a thread in the dev section that changes the user agent to desktop http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17437874&postcount=110
I use dolphin for pad exclusively and never had any problems (except some sites with drop-down menus don't work).
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I started to get very annoyed with this problem.
When I use opera, and enter a web page with lots of images (eg. lifehacker.com), I can't seem to zoom in enough to have clear, NON-choppy, images. It seems like the more I zoom pass the double-tap, images just gets worse and more pixellated.
Is there something I am doing wrong? Is there a fix to this?
I've applied the tweak where I can see whole webpages instead of "zoomed-in" versions that came stock.
Don't know if this is the problem causer.
AFAIK, double-tap sets "zoom level" to 100% (1 image pixel= 1 screen pixel), any more is enlarging and inevitably leading to choppy images.
EDIT: Actually, double-tap seems to already be more than 100%, a 200pix wide image on my gallery is rendered as 350 pixels on screen after a double-tap.
Reading a recent article about the Nook Color on Anandtech I would like to ask if it's possible to view 360° spherical panorama images on the Nook Color with the CyanogenMod 7 - since the Nook's IPS display should be excellent.
With its price tag the Nook Color would be perfect for me as a personal ebook reader and a portable unit to showcase images and 360° panoramas to clients.
Perhaps some good soul could test a panorama on 360Cities.net or a panorama in HTML5 and Flash on my website and report if these images are visible on the Nook clicking on the image of this webpage:
_thomaskrueger.eu/600/caruggi-genova-labyrinth-altstadt-genua
I tried Panoramas.dk and 360cities.net on my Nook Color running Cyanogenmod 7.03 stable with Flash 10.3. It didn't work very well. I was able to view a few panoramas. I had trouble with some of the controls, particularly zooming and panning. In general all of the motion was jerky. After trying three or four panoramas the browser would not load any web pages, not even the Google home page. I had to restart the Nook Color to get the browser to work again.
Would none of these work?
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/panorama
@brucemcl: Thanks a lot for testing. The jerky movement is probably related to a too large cubesize of the panorama which fills up the ram of the Nook.
@ace7196: Good and usable viewers for 360° panorama are actually:
Pano2VR
Krpano
FPP Flashpanorama Player
I just can't post the URL's as a new user.
This Flash panorama has reduced tile sizes for the screen resolution of the Nook, with the button on the right side of the icon bar you can switch to fullscreen resolution:
http thomaskrueger.eu/work/nook/index.html
ThomasKru said:
This Flash panorama has reduced tile sizes for the screen resolution of the Nook, with the button on the right side of the icon bar you can switch to fullscreen resolution:
http thomaskrueger.eu/work/nook/index.html
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Works nicely on my rooted NC with flash 10.3 with standard kernel and stock browser.
Switching from/to full screen works in both portrait and landscape.
You can use the n button as a back button in the browser to get out of full screen mode.
Movement is smooth.
You might have to space the buttons a bit further apart for a better "touchability".
Vielen Dank für das Feedback!!
Now, where can I get a Nook Color here in Italy....
hi folks,
i love AOSP browser. only one thing bugs me about it - it doesn't scale images to fit screen. did any previous versions do this properly or is there any way to get it to do it? firefox does this perfectly and is an excellent browser, but it defaults to page overview for every single page it loads so i'm constantly having to double tap to fit screen. if firefox had a way to remember default zoom like AOSP it would also be perfect!
gary.
Ok, so I'm spoilt coming from a HTC One with its excellent browser and text flow. . but what have LG done?? None of the browsers I've tried (stock, chrome, Dolphin) even manage to do paragraph text flow on double tapping. Seems they align text to the left, but dont properly word wrap. Worse, LG have messed up the fonts, so pages dont appear as they should with some fonts in the incorrect size and colour.
Has anyone found a browser which is usable?
are you running custom dpi?
anyway try firefox or other browser
Hi All,
It is well known that browsers do not report exact screen resolution, e.g. on 1920x1200 tablet it reports 1280x752, on 1080x1920 phone it reports 360x592 (same stock Browser of OmniROM). This way the viewport size is being managed. But what if I want to make things smaller ( = increase reported resolution), where in a Browser's APK can I do that? Changing build.prop is not an option, that will affect all the apps.
In other words, when we build a ROM for a specific device where can we specify screen resolution for it?
Thanks...
Edit:
Compared to different browsers and figured out its more about "Wide Viewport" that needs to be switched OFF to get what I want. It was possible to get old pre-KitKat browsers to Debug mode and switch it there, but no options for one in KitKat. Anyone knows how to remove Wide Viewport functionality from the APK itself?