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Can I improve the image quality in Safari?

As a photographer one of the things I was most looking forward to doing on my iPad was browsing flickr and other photo sites.

Unfortunately safari seems to re-compress the images it displays (to save memory?) and the resulting JPEG artifacts are so distracting that it's not even worth looking at my contacts photos until I'm back on my laptop.

To reproduce this just go to flickr on your normal computer and on the iPad and compare some images - it's a pretty big difference.

I can't see any settings for image quality anywhere. Is there anything I can do, or am I stuck waiting for an iPad version of the Flickr app?

iPad, iPhone OS 3.1.3

Posted on May 28, 2010 6:04 AM

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May 29, 2010 1:33 AM in response to Alley_Cat

Alley_cat, you're right... I just installed an AirPort last night and over WiFi everything looks fantastic! For the record I'm getting 3G from O2 in the UK, so I guess that means they're compressing the images?

Btw, I've just had the chance to have a proper play with my iPad this morning, downloading apps and stuff, and I have to say it's exceeding my expectations in every way (and my expectations were high!). What an amazing machine 🙂

May 30, 2010 4:05 PM in response to jbt99

jbt99 wrote:
Alley_cat, you're right... I just installed an AirPort last night and over WiFi everything looks fantastic! For the record I'm getting 3G from O2 in the UK, so I guess that means they're compressing the images?


Looks like it.

I've noticed it too on my O2 connection and the image quality is abysmal.

A quick search hasn't yielded a solution - changing the O2 username to bypass in some setups apparently bypasses the proxy, but someone on O2 forums was asking before iPad was released, and the inference was that unless you had a long term contract, all the pay as you go type options didn't allow this to work.

I also tried a different server setting for O2 and it told me I had no allowance left - fortunately this went when I reset the setting.

I may try contacting O2 and would urge others to do so as it really I pairs the user experience.

Vodafone does the same with a USB dongle I have but in theory I can get them to disable the proxy.

Btw, I've just had the chance to have a proper play with my iPad this morning, downloading apps and stuff, and I have to say it's exceeding my expectations in every way (and my expectations were high!). What an amazing machine 🙂

Can I improve the image quality in Safari?

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