Re: Web pages

[LaVonna Funkhouser <lffunkhouser -at- HALNET -dot- COM>]

Matt Rocketman Ion wrote:
(snip)
>YES! YES! YES!   There's nothing more frustrating than waiting five minutes
>for some monstrous 24-bit-color GIF to load just so I can click somewhere and
>be on to the next link.  What's even worse is when the ONLY link off the page
>is a huge image map (ie. no text links), and you CAN'T just click on past
>until enough of the image has come in to show you what's what and where.

Amen!  I hate that!  Besides, I do not trust image maps.  (Ever try to
get anywhere from the image map at http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/?)
Page authors:  Please include text jumps as well as image hotspots.

>If image file sizes are controlled, one doesn't have to be so sparse with the
>graphics.  8-bit color is more than enough for most images... in fact, I
>expect there are a majority of people out there running Windows in default VGA
>(16-color) mode, so anything over 4-bit images may be wasted on the masses
>(obviously, not all pages cater to the masses).  .JPGs are good for larger
>images, but I've seen some pages use them even for bullets, which slows things
>down because they aren't that much smaller than their .GIF counterparts, but
>take longer to decompress.

I did not know this about .gifs and .jpgs.  Thanks for the info1

LaVonna
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