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    Re: Picture file sizes —Terry Keller
   (...) Nah, not even then. If the picture is something you want people to see, you should not subject them to a huge file. It's just not necessary to have really large jpg file sizes. Show me a 640x480 200K jpg file, and I bet you it could be reduced (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: Picture file sizes —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) Yup. Keep in mind that there is a strong contingent in your readership that doesn't really care for thumbnails. I want to see your page, laid out and designed to present the information to me in a coherent story, not just a grid of thumbnails (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)
    
         Re: Picture file sizes —Todd Lehman
      (...) I did that (one big page) on my SpiderWalker page but the images were pretty small there (320x240). I think what Terry did is a good compromise between "one big page" and "not too small per page," seeing as some people on the net still run (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)
    
         Re: Picture file sizes —Terry Keller
     (...) I gnawed on that question for a while. Finally I opted for fewer pictures per page just to keep it cleaner, with less scrolling required. I also attempted to balance the image loading times with the average time taken to read the descriptive (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: Picture file sizes —Matthew Miller
   (...) It's not a matter of "subjecting to", it's a matter of "offering the option of". (...) In a lot of cases, probably. But I think you're over-generalizing -- consider for example the images at (URL), which are designed for transfer to another (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: Picture file sizes —Terry Keller
   (...) True enough. Options are good. (...) Sure, exceptions do exist. For instance, I've been considering adding optional PNG format files in addition to the JPG files for some of the renderings I publish. Why? Because that way the viewer can view (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)
 

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