Re: Shall I include artwork in technical documentation?

2017-05-01 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
On 2017-05-01 02:17, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: https://goo.gl/forms/VDbXIhlFHVM6DleF3 Artwork or not isn't suitable as a yes/no question. Artwork may improve readability, but it adds to the maintenance burden, so in many cases it's a trade-off between readability and available resources

Re: Shall I include artwork in technical documentation?

2017-05-01 Thread teo teo
Strange argument? Indeed, it is strange that someone would argue that an increase of 100% in size is negligible. Another thing would be to argue that bandwidth doesn't matter. It doesn't to you and me, but you seem to understand that it can matter to some people, right? Because you didn't say

Re: Shall I include artwork in technical documentation?

2017-05-01 Thread teo teo
> Images properly optimized take a negligible amount of space. This one took > 89.3 KB. Which is more than 50% of the whole page download. Negligible, huh? -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Shall I include artwork in technical documentation?

2017-05-01 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Colin Law: Those of us who pay for bandwidth and/or have to manage with low connection rates would prefer that images that do not server a purpose should be avoided. Images properly optimized take a negligible amount of space. This one took 89.3 KB. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list

Re: Shall I include artwork in technical documentation?

2017-05-01 Thread Colin Law
On 1 May 2017 at 17:16, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > Gunnar Hjalmarsson: >> Artwork may improve readability, but it adds to the maintenance >> burden. > > The artwork I'm talking about doesn't require maintenance at all. I'm > referring to images like the one at the

Re: Shall I include artwork in technical documentation?

2017-05-01 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Gunnar Hjalmarsson: > Artwork may improve readability, but it adds to the maintenance > burden. The artwork I'm talking about doesn't require maintenance at all. I'm referring to images like the one at the bottom of this page: (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/es20490446e/Reporting%20bugs) --

Shall I include artwork in technical documentation?

2017-04-30 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
https://goo.gl/forms/VDbXIhlFHVM6DleF3 -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality