Re: FN-FORUM Cut Graphic?

date posted 29th August 2000 13:03

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Martin wrote:

> Steve Parkes wrote on 29/8/00 12:00 pm
>
> >Every image you create is opened as a new connection to the host. By
> >chopping graphincs up you are creating more connections than needed and
> >slowing the site down.
>
> However, since most browsers can make several simultaneous connections,
> the image *appears* to arrive faster.
Not if the connection has a high latency or the server is overworked ;-)

keep alive connections may help sometimes but a single image (well
designed and compassionatly compressed) will *be* quicker over a modem
connection to an overworked web server.

>
> Also, with a sliced image, you can use different types and settings of
> optimisation (or even leave the area as a blank table cell or have
> 'real' text) for each slice, which can drastically reduce the amount
> of data required.
Creative snipping here ;-)

The image in question is used in a splash page. I slice out areas of
images and replace them all the time when creating GUI's but that wasn't
the question