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Re: Anyone built a curved bridge?
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish
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Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:39:41 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Some theories:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> if teh browser has to fetch the image first, it vastly slows down
> percieved rendering.
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> Ah, ok, it finished. YUP.
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> all your occurances of:
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> <TD><A HREF="gmltc3.jpg"><IMG SRC="gmltc3th.jpg"></A></TD>
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> should be changed to
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> <TD><A HREF="gmltc3.jpg"><IMG SRC="gmltc3th.jpg" width=216 height=146
> alt ="thumbnail of bucket loader" ></A></TD>
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> (where the alt tag describes the picture and the width and height are
> the actual pixel dimensions of the thumbnail...)
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> 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)
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> Hope that helps.
>
> --
> Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar
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>
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I applied the above advice and now the page loads much faster.
Thanks Lar, makes me appreciate your score of 1600 [1] much more.
Paul
[1] See RTL for running flame war reference that Larry is in
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| Gee thanks for the alt tag on this one: (URL) at least it's my good side. Paul Foster wrote: <Gee, Larry IS smart... or at least he knows basic HTML from 2 years back, anyway> Warning: That may not be a completely accurate paraphrase but it's the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish)
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