Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 11:54:00 05/11/99
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On May 09, 1999 at 12:10:24, James Swafford wrote: >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 Well, the site looks great if you have a cable modem connection. 8^) Dave
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