On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:09:30 -0700, Bob Buckland ?:-\) wrote:
> Hi Glenn,
> <<Glenn McCorkle:It's a 5000x1x256 GIF file.
> That's right, that STUPID-ASS web page page designer used a
> 5000 pixel wide by 1 pixel high 256 color GIF for the backgound.>>
> Hmmm, Using a very wide and non-tall background graphic
> is a pretty common web design technique (prevents horizontal tiling)
> but 5000 wide? Must be an interesting monitor that guy has <g>.
> There was some testing done awhile back that found that a 1 pixel high
> background would drag browser rendering down and somewhere
> around 25 high worked better. In this one (a 3 color graphic [8 bit] )
> that's only 940 bytes isn't too bad of a size) and it should still work.
> a browser page width shouldn't be affected by the background width.
> Did you have the problem if you put it into a plain HTML page?
> <html>
> <body background="http://www.goto.com/images/dir/bg.gif">
> This is sample text.
> </body>
> </html>
Yep.... that little test caused a "cold reboot". :-(
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