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Re: Typefaces: Verdana vs. Times
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lugnet.publish
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Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:20:58 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, shutkoa@ugsolutions.com (Alan Shutko) writes:
> lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
> > Anyway, it's not that things like GIFs are really very high bandwidth
> > or anything
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> Actually, my biggest complaint these days is their latency. It takes
> so long to download 30 little gifs used to put together a page on a
> modem. And I'd _love_ to have some fast connection, but the only one
> available here is a T1. And those aren't cheap. (No cable modems, no
> DSL... and ISDN is barely worth the obscene cost.)
In theory, a bunch of small GIFs -should- load quickly with a page, right?
As long as both the client & server are using HTTP 1.1 and Keep-Alive?
I know what you mean, though... What a gunky thing to see a bunch of little
image icons on a page and then see them blink on one by one as they're
fetched.
The funny thing about separate files for images, BTW, is that once they get
to a certain size and repeat usage across multiple pages, it's better to
keep them as separate files and let the client cache them than to embed them
in each page.
But I still yearn for the ability to embed arbitrary simple line graphics in
HTML documents -as- HTML... :)
--Todd
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| (...) Say, what do you think about HTML/XML extensions for doing line-art? (I mean official extensions, of course -- if they can be standardized upon. There are so many people competing for this right now, it frightens me.) Anyway, it's not that (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-99, to lugnet.publish)
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