[thelist] Retro 90s webdesign - speeding up large image downloads
Megan Holbrook
meganwh at wi.rr.com
Tue Jun 7 20:50:33 CDT 2005
chris wrote:
> <<they will pretty much look the same to an untrained eye.>>
>
> Hmm - the designer has a trained eye - image optimization that
> compromises image quality is not acceptable to him (I'm struggling to
> maintain good humor about this).
>
> Well, if cutting them up into smaller chunks increases http time, I
> wonder if I could take advantage of that by using a server side cache
> (like the Pear Cache-lite class)
Would it be possible to post the image that you're working on somewhere
online (unless you have a confidentiality agreement hanging over you)?
It's easier to give useful, pertinent advice based on the actual design
than on the abstract notion of an all-image website (my sympathies, by
the way...).
:) M.
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