Re: BBC Programme Pages

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 07:08:05PM +0100, John Williams wrote:
>
> I notice that, when I click on a programme page from the Radio 4 Schedule
> Page, the main photo is pixellated, whilst other photos on the page are OK.
>
> Under Ubuntu in Firefox, the photos are rendered correctly.
>
> I suspect this may be something to do with NetSurf trying to render a
> thumbnail instead of the main JPEG - perhaps an EXIF file with embedded
> thumbnail?
>
> However, other browsers get it right, so why can't my preferred browser,
> NetSurf under RISC OS, get it right?
>
> Look at, say, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b044mc1g - the page for the
> programme I've just listened to - to see what I mean.
>
> Or is there some other explanation?

First guess at looking at it in Firefox is that the image is streamed,
ie, a low-quality small version is mentioned in the HTML to make page
render prompt, and then JavaScript replaces it with a higher-quality one
once the page render has completed.

B.