(...) 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)
(...) But what if the html is completely loaded before the image even begins loading? Or what if you're browsing without images on (not that many people do that anymore...)? --Bram (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)