Rick den Haan wrote: > Robert O'Rourke wrote: > >> Christian Heilmann wrote: >> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqFOB77jLaE >>> >>> >> good crikey! that made me eyes go gozzy. >> >> so which file is smaller? the HTML or the image? :-P >> > > I ran a comparison on that :-P I took a 2445x1767 stock photo and ran a PHP > script to convert it to a table based HTML file. I didn't take rowspan and > colspan into account, so each image pixel is its own td, but the 2 MB jpeg > image turned into a 263 MB HTML file... For those interested: > <http://prive.rickdenhaan.net/swimming.jpg> and > <http://prive.rickdenhaan.net/swimming.html>. It's on my private server at > home, though, which isn't too fast a connection. > > >> would it kill a pc to use javascript to animate something like that? >> > > Probably :-) > I think you guys may have fun with this http://php.lighttpd.net/?render_style=div&show_blocks=1 ./C