On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 16:36 +1100, Graeme Gill wrote: [...] > Hmm. I'm not sure that 3k for an image is really that significant > given the bloat and slowdown on typical websites Some people (including me) go to quite a bit of trouble to make the initial Web page load as quickly as possible. It makes a huge difference to the user experience. Sure, 3K isn't much. 20 icons on the page? 60K. Dialup? An extra ten seconds. A lost customer, sometimes. An option to embed, refer, or neither, makes sense to me, because you can't predict which is wanted. > [...] > The moves to use URL references is > one aimed at reducing the overhead, but I wonder if it is worth the > trouble and breakage it will cause. It sounds like if it's done right it will be an improvement. The point of the Web has been summarized as, "let's see what happens if you give everything a name." Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
