On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:14:46 +0000, Andy Champ wrote:

wrote:

Yes, but
a) further compression is often possible b) lossy compression is
possible for images, this can dramatically speed up webpage loading

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Oh there's an idea I can use lossy compression on those jpeg images on
the web server. Oh hang on...

Right-sizing them does help, though. Many web servers still have huge
images displayed as a 100x100 thumbnail on the web page.