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<p>[QUOTE="RonSanderson, post: 2744153, member: 77413"]eBay had a dedicated app for Windows 10 for a while, but it was buggy and is not supported now. That means you are viewing the picture embedded in an HTML script, and that script may constrain the size of the image, as well as control whether you can go to a full-size image when you hover or click on it. If the image is specified for display at less than its actual resolution, then the browser has to perform the interpolation needed to rescale it. If done poorly you may well end up with visible artifacts. </p><p><br /></p><p>(I was on the verge of identifying the code for this when my desktop crashed. Sigh.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The iPhone does, of course, have a browser, and that is where I end up when I follow the GSC auction link provided above. However, it also has a dedicated app for eBay. Presumably this does not rely on HTML to convey the information to the device, as would be needed when using a browser. It seems likely that the constraints on viewing images through a generalized HTML script for a browser, and for using a dedicated app with custom-built features, are quite different.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if the same identical image file is downloaded the displaying software may provide different capabilities for viewing it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="RonSanderson, post: 2744153, member: 77413"]eBay had a dedicated app for Windows 10 for a while, but it was buggy and is not supported now. That means you are viewing the picture embedded in an HTML script, and that script may constrain the size of the image, as well as control whether you can go to a full-size image when you hover or click on it. If the image is specified for display at less than its actual resolution, then the browser has to perform the interpolation needed to rescale it. If done poorly you may well end up with visible artifacts. (I was on the verge of identifying the code for this when my desktop crashed. Sigh.) The iPhone does, of course, have a browser, and that is where I end up when I follow the GSC auction link provided above. However, it also has a dedicated app for eBay. Presumably this does not rely on HTML to convey the information to the device, as would be needed when using a browser. It seems likely that the constraints on viewing images through a generalized HTML script for a browser, and for using a dedicated app with custom-built features, are quite different. Even if the same identical image file is downloaded the displaying software may provide different capabilities for viewing it.[/QUOTE]
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