On 2015-12-31, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:17:50 -0600, Ignoramus24626
wrote:
On 2015-12-31, Larry Jaques wrote:
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http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Equipment.jpg
DAMN, Ig. I've been meaning to ask you this for years now:
_When_ are you going to learn how to process graphics for the web?
Your images are all huge (5k x 3k pixels) and multi-megabyte. I pare
a graphic like that down to 1024 largest dim and dice it to maybe
100kb. Each is done in under ten seconds, and each loads in seconds.
Yours take nearly a minute on my 4mbs DSL to load. I realize that
some pictures will need to be large to show details for a sale, but
several smaller snippets from one would work better for you, I'm sure.
Consider Photoshop or another image processing prog.
I did consider this very deeply.
I'm sorry we disagree so strongly on this. In my other life as a web
designer, speed of a site was of utmost importance, and still is to me
and many others. You may be on 50mbs cable now, but not everyone is.
I prefer to get maximum detail -- as I often zoom in to images.
Even this one, where it appears that the smoker is missing a calibrated
temperature knob.
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I feel that on most websites with pictures, the pictures are way too
small to be useful.
So process larger pics for your site. Simple. 500kb is much better
than 4mb per pic, and you lose no relevant detail.
How about a smaller image, and a link to download full
resolution if desired? That could keep those with the slower downloads
happy while satisfying those who prefer resolution like me as well. If
I'm going to wait through a full download, I can certainly take the
extra time for the smaller image to tell whether I *want* the complete
image. FWIW -- my connection is a T1 (slower than some of the cable or
FIOS ones, but far faster than dialup. :-)
Or -- without using too much fancy new HTML -- is it possible to
test the download speed at the start and offer smaller images if the
speed is below some limit? (Ideally, this would work without javascript
and other such extensions which are often disabled by the
security-conscious. :-)
Enjoy,
DoN.
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