[WikiEN-l] Evidence as to VFD being unusably big

Sun Mar 6 21:19:59 UTC 2005

--- David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just saved [[WP:VFD]] as of a few minutes ago. The
> HTML alone is 1,324,734
> bytes. The associated files are 28,964 bytes.
> 
> I have a Pentium II 450MHz with 768MB memory running
> Netscape 7.2. It takes
> a minute or two just for the page to render.
> 
> So to vote on VFD, you must have a broadband
> connection - anyone on dialup
> is pretty much barred - and preferably be browsing
> with an Athlon 64. Or
> maybe a Cray.
> 
> Here's one suggestion: make the main VFD page just
> links to the day pages,
> rather than transcluding every one of them.

Nonsense.  I have a dialup connection and have little
problem working with the VfD page.  

RickK

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