We’ve been busy at Wapple Towers lately – creating a new image processor that make your Canvas powered sites look even better, allowing you to retain your brand that much more impressively!

We now take advantage of mobile handsets browser capabilities – if they support transparent PNGs, and you’ve uploaded one, we deliver it. And we’ve increased the quality of images that are delivered too, so if you have a good quality PNG at around 1000px wide, you’ll get some stunning results on your mobile site.

Of course, our powerful device profiler Wapple Exhibit makes sure that your huge 1000px image is displayed perfectly to scale on any handset and if a particular phone doesn’t support transparencies or PNGs in general, you’ll get the fallback of a JPG (if the phone supports it!) with your choice of background colour. It also ensures that these higher quality images are still minimal in size and load quickly over mobile phone networks.

Get started by logging into Wapple Canvas and upload some new graphics. Overlay some transparent images on top of another background image if you want, the choice is yours!

If you’re using Architect, integrate your better quality Canvas images by using a <graphicChunk> element and reference your new image. More information on how to do this can be found on our documentation site at http://wapl.info/coding-for-the-mobile-web-with-WAPL/chapter/Graphic-Chunk/.

Let us know what you think of this new feature and whether if you’d like to see any other improvements with graphics.