... I told you to ignore this thread, but nooo, you had to look inside and see what was going on! Curiosity... Tisk!

Several browsers for OSX have been creating a blurring (anti aliasing filter) effect with zoomed images. Safari, Firefox, and SeaMonkey are documented as having this issue, but their PC counterparts, if they have one, display proper, crisp images... Mozilla 1.7.5 for OSX does not have this problem, and it is a slightly older browser. Therefore it's probably some change in method that is causing this (graphics/rendering library issue). For OSX users, his is completely unacceptable, and suggests a trend in browser development of a cosmetic nature, where pages are built to be zoomed to fit a user's screen resolution, and bitmap images are being "corrected". This is only a theory, however.
Firefox sports a feature that shrinks to fit the loading of individual images if they exceed your window sizewhich is acceptable, but blurred zooms when images are scaled at factors of their original size are inappropriate when precision of detail is at stake.
Here is a test image, saved to various formats to rule out any inconsistencies between them (none have been found so far).
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