[thelist] Re: site check, both barrels please.

**1st Vamp** wes at pmason.karoo.co.uk
Tue Mar 12 09:06:01 CST 2002


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I don't have much to contribute to this particular thread, but I would
just like to say something about usin spacer .gif's/.png's (I prefer
the use of PNGs for anything a GIF can do myself).
I tend to see it as bad practice to use spacer images with a non
breaking space ( ) will achieve the same thing.
Why?
1) The inline XHTML/HTML character code takes up less space.
2) It's inline so the browser doesn't have to spawn another connection
to get the information.
3) The use of these spacers can give different results in different
situations (some browsers will ALWAYS replace a broken image object
with a inset box and the ALT information for the image, if for some
reason the spacer image isn't downloaded by the browser (just one
time-out occurs and this happens) and all your spaces will be replaced
with little inset boxes).

Of course this is *just* my opinion, so please swallow with a slight
pinch of salt.

- - Vamp

Tuesday, March 12, 2002, 12:04:28 AM, Olena Sullivan wrote:
<snip>
> Hi Miriam,
</snip>
<snip>
> - tables with row upon row of cells with "&nbsp;" for spacing (this may
> just be me, but just use a spacer .gif instead of 5 rows of blanks)
</snip>
<snip>
> :) Olena Sullivan
</snip>

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