[WikiEN-l] Re: Article size consistency 32k

Mon May 23 01:07:18 UTC 2005

Geoff Burling wrote:
> 
> It's an ancient version of Mozilla that I probably compiled 
> incorrectly when I installed in years ago

In that case, I'm very afraid you have no grounds to complain.

> Download times are a very off-putting experience whenever one deals 
> with the Web, & very few web developers bother to optimize for speed 
> -- or even consider it a problem.

Unfortunately, web surfers often do injustice to web designers who do.
Websites I make may not *finish* loading instantly the way Google does,
because I tend to use more images, but I make it a very important point
that the loading of the images (and CSS and other data) must not impair
the speed of appearance of the text. Some of the Wikipedia skins do that
too and you can happily read away the text as soon as it has been
transferred. Unfortunately, Monobook isn't one of them, because it uses
several CSS files which themselves include yet other CSS files...

> And turning images off is not the solution.

I never suggested that. That wouldn't make the text appear any sooner
anyway.

> I'm not interested in seeing every known image with the proper 
> license that could be related to the subject.

Then don't look at them.

Timwi