On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 15:42:10 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > Hi All;
> I came across this on another list: > http://www.unix-systems.org/slides/status-jul2001/ > This takes you to a strange and interesting example of how to do > something while at the same time showing you how NOT to do it !! > Here we get a slideshow. Here we see how a sensible designer can > make the slideshow control panel without javascript. It works well. > Here we get slides. A good example of how to blow 200 bytes of text > up into a 50k image. Why slides ? Maybe the slides were designed and prepared originally for a non-web presentation. You can easily prepare a presentation this way with Micro$oft Power Point or with some other presentation graphics software, convert the slides to image files, and then later upload your slide show to a web site. They taught me how to do this at the Community College, but I never actually did it on a real web site. I don't like this method of web-page design because it takes too long for the large image files to download. Maybe the author didn't want to take the time to duplicate his presentation work in HTML. Another possible explanation is that maybe the author especially liked the fonts appearing on his images and these same fonts might not be perfectly duplicatable in HTML. Images are sometimes considered necessary if it is important for the text to be seen the same way and in the same relative location in all browsers. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
