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Subject: Re: wahyen tourney - update 4th round completed

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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