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Re: Anyone built a curved bridge?
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish
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Date:
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Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:26:48 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.+Spamcake+com
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Some theories:
How big are the thumbnails? If they are still pretty big that will slow
things down. A thumbnail should be no more than 20K or so, especially if
you have scads of them.
More importantly, are you using height= and width= tags on your <img>
tag? I suspect not. The page is loading in the background as I type this
and I do NOT see the browser rendering layout.
While using h and w tags does not actually speed up loading, it give
the *appearance* of faster loading because the browser can render the
layout before it has fetched all the images. the h and w tags tell it
how much space to set aside for each image.
if teh browser has to fetch the image first, it vastly slows down
percieved rendering.
Ah, ok, it finished. YUP.
all your occurances of:
<TD><A HREF="gmltc3.jpg"><IMG SRC="gmltc3th.jpg"></A></TD>
should be changed to
<TD><A HREF="gmltc3.jpg"><IMG SRC="gmltc3th.jpg" width=216 height=146
alt ="thumbnail of bucket loader" ></A></TD>
(where the alt tag describes the picture and the width and height are
the actual pixel dimensions of the thumbnail...)
Using an alt tag means that I can click on the thumbnail and have a
sense of what I am about to get before the browser shows the pic. Using
the actual dimensions means the browser doesn't have to spend cycles on
resizing the image (a common mistake peoiple do is use the original
images as their thumbs... setting the w and h smaller. That saves
nothing, the entire big image is still downloaded, then downsized on the
client/browser side)
Hope that helps.
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| (...) especially (...) That's still too big! I try to keep thumbnails under 5Kb, usually 1 to 2Kb. My connection's pretty slow... Larger images should be under 10Kb, and I try to keep full size images (640x480+) between 20 and 50Kb. (...) Which (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish)
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