I had already e-mailed Dave about this, but I will throw it to the list for discussion:
>The current JPG files are pulling 'double duty' by being used for both >thumbnails and full images from the same single file for each image. After >the first page loads, they are already downloaded in your cache so you can >then quickly click from one image to the next without waiting for anything >else to load. Otherwise, you would have to wait for EACH image to load >separately when you looked at each one. I have to strongly disagree with this logic. By using the full image file for dual purposes (the thumbnail version and the image itself), I think the page becomes user-unfriendly. If there were only small jpeg thumbnail images on the main page, it would load quickly. I would then have an idea of what photos are available for viewing, and could choose which ones to look at. Only then would the complete image file download. I don't think the average reader is going to look at *every* photo on the page, so you would enhance his enjoyment by providing small, quickly-loading, jpeg previews. And, pleeeeezzze, get rid of that spinning "Links" logo. I'm getting dizzy. :) Jeffrey Dobek St. Louis (see my web sites on the Keokuk Junction and Lenawee County for examples of this) P.S.--I read e-mail and wrote this message, and the SPORRS page is *still* downloading in the background (at 28.8). :( -> Web Site: http://home.att.net/~acphotog/sporrs/sporrs.htm -> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects X-Mozilla-Status: 8011 Content-Length: 7113
