Why Tiny JPEGs Look Different in Chrome
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Guillaume Técher — Personal website
What looked like a rendering bug turned out to be a clever JPEG decoding optimization in Chrome. This icon looks better on my colleague’s computer A while back, when chatting with a colleague over their computer, I noticed that a logo did not look exactly the same as it did on mine. It looked thinner on theirs and more faithful to the original image. It was rendered at 15px; here is an upscaled version. Note: this was not the original image. It happened a while ago, so I made a new image to demonstrate the issue. On the left, Firefox; on the right, Chrome. If you squint, or take a step…
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