Resizing an image in an HTML5 canvas

Question

I\'m trying to create a thumbnail image on the client side using javascript and a canvas element, but when I shrink the image down, it looks terrible. It looks as if it was

Answer 1

For resizing to image with width less that original, i use:

    function resize2(i) {
      var cc = document.createElement("canvas");
      cc.width = i.width / 2;
      cc.height = i.height / 2;
      var ctx = cc.getContext("2d");
      ctx.drawImage(i, 0, 0, cc.width, cc.height);
      return cc;
    }
    var cc = img;
    while (cc.width > 64 * 2) {
      cc = resize2(cc);
    }
    // .. than drawImage(cc, .... )

and it works =).