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James Bursa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:18:51PM +0100, Andrew Hodgkinson wrote:
>> Yes, but you're still squandering CPU cycles on unnecessary reformats
>> caused by NetSurf failing to allocate space for images even when the
>> image has a fixed width and height, even if those intermediate redraw
>> stages are double-buffered (which actually just slows you down even
>> *more*, of course). I never understood why NS ignores image sizes.
>
> Ignoring the size makes it possible to display the entire alt text without it
> being cropped to the size of the image, so the page is more useful
> while images
> are loading.
>
> Essentially <img src=... alt="NetSurf"> is treated like
> <object data=...>NetSurf</object>.
Could this be made a user choice?
How useful each behaviour is depends on both the machine rendering
speed and the time taken to download images.
(eg A7000 on fast broadband vs. Iyonix on slow dial-up)
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Jess
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