Author: James Swafford
Date: 09:10:24 05/09/99
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On May 08, 1999 at 18:45:19, David Eppstein wrote: >Thanks for this site -- especially for the PGN games. > >However, while your information content is interesting, all the pretty animated >gifs are still making your page extremely painful to view over a slow modem >connection. Try setting yourself a budget: the total size (text + all images) on >any one page should be at most 20 kbytes. Some of your pages have multiple >animated gifs that are each ten times that, for no good reason that I can see. > >Sticking to such a limit should have the result of improving the design (and not >just reducing the bandwidth) because it will force you to think more deeply >about how to effectively communicate your content. > >You're in good company: there are many other useful but extremely annoyingly >decorated sites on the web -- TWIC comes to mind. 20k would be unreasonably >small for a page devoted to actual pictures (anyone going to take a camera to >the WCCC?) but shouldn't be a problem for chess. Thanks! I gave up on the site after a minute or so... I have a 33k modem, and "it just ain't worth it." :-) -- James
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