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

Tue Mar 8 06:35:48 UTC 2005

Rick wrote:
> --- 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

Really? I have broadband and I have lots of difficulty working with this 
page. Firefox and IE takes ages to render the darned thing.

TBSDY