Safari resizes photos to fit non-retina display even on new iPad

[gnagy]

When I load up the following image (using safari) on the new iPad and the iPad 2, it gets resized to 912x684:
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1769/retinatest.jpg

The source image is 3648x2736, and there should be a huge difference between what's readable on the license plate using the retina screen. However, since it gets resized to less than a mega pixel, the image looks the same on both devices.

Text looks great, but I'd like photos to look as sharp as possible when browsing the web also. Is this a bug in safari? Or is this how it was intended to work?

 

[rkahl]

When I downloaded your photo on my iPad and opened it with iPhoto, it retained the dimensions of a 10mp camera.

 

[ZBoater]

I downloaded the pic and Photogene reports the correct resolution.

The license plate is still fuzzy as when I pinch and zoom in Safari.

 

[karmamule]

It's deliberate.

See this section of the article about the retina display on tomshardware:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ipad-3-benchmark-review,3156-5.html

 

[gnagy]

Yeah, when you download the photo, it looks correct in the Photos app. But safari can only display a non-retina version of the photo.

Thanks for that link Karmamule. That's unfortunate. Hopefully, Apple will raise that 1024 limit on the iPad 3.