Scaling images in IE

Answer 1

Joel Spolsky posted a solution to this on this blog recently: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/12/22.html

Add to following to the CSS:

img { -ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic; }

The best solution is to use images that do not need to be scaled by the browser, but the CSS Joel suggests to a great improvement.

Answer 2

For IE6, Microsoft itself has a Knowledge Base article

Answer 3

Unstoppable Robot Ninja has an article with more information and some code to make it work on IE6 and IE7.

The problem is not IE specific, but platform specific. Firefox, Safari etc. all use their own rendering engine that scales much smoother than native Windows scaling does.

I'd advise to add the CSS declarations or JavaScript code in Conditional Comments, so non IE browsers don't have to download the extra code or issue another request. This also keeps your CSS clean and valid.