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Re: Haylp! Why does NN take ages to load these tables?
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Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:53:05 GMT
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"David Eaton" <deaton@intdata.com> writes:
2nd, don't specify the sizes of your images in <IMG> tags-- do this in
your tables, or not at all!... When you specify the size of an image in • the
IMG tag, NN (and I think MSIE too) automatically resizes the image
to your specifications, and hence has to go through a resizing • routine...
and that adds time...

I'll have to disagree here.  Please, always specify the dimensions of the
images in the <IMG> tag.  That way, the browser knows how much space to
set aside for the image before the image is entirely loaded.  Otherwise,
nothing will show up until all the images have loaded, or the browser has
to readjust the positioning of everything else after the image loads.
--Bram


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  Re: Haylp! Why does NN take ages to load these tables?
 
(...) I dunno about jpg, but iff and gif store the dimensions and colour-depth (roughly what size buffer to allocate) in the first few bytes of the image - I'd have guessed that most other formats were the same. Richard (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
  Re: Haylp! Why does NN take ages to load these tables?
 
(...) Sorry Dave, but I strongly agree with Bram on this. ALWAYS give height and width tags on your images and further, make sure that they're actually correct. The browser won't resize the image if what it got when it fetched the image matches the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)

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  Re: Haylp! Why does NN take ages to load these tables?
 
(...) Well... a couple things, I think... 1st, I'm not sure if having <TABLE><TD>blah</TD></TABLE> is "legal"... According to O'Reilly's _HTML_The_Definitive_Guide_ (3rd ed, copyright 1998): "The only content allowed within the <table> is one or (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)

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