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Re: Anyone built a curved bridge?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish
Date: 
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:43:09 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> writes:
> 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.

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.

> 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.

Which saves time even if it isn't loading faster because the visitor can
read the text while the images load.
--Bram


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  Re: Anyone built a curved bridge?
 
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 (...) (27 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish)

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