It's raining in here, so I got some free time earlier than the expected.
*cracks knuckles* Let's start:
Quote:I made the progress bar to lower people's expectations of when the site was due, then hopefully I'll finish ahead of expectations 8)
OK. But who's expecting? :wink:
Quote:Only a few characters takes next to no time at all to load, whereas your banners etc do take time, and remember that if everyone had a banner, and say 5 different people posted in a thread that becomes 15 seconds worth of null downloading.
Yep. But browsers (IE, NS and Opera, for instance) intelligently loads the HTML code first, and -then- the images. If you prefer to wait for the loading of the images before start reading, well, it's your problem, not mine. For instance, wizardlife previously posted a series of images regarding Halo 2, and I don't think that you had to wait the loading of all the screenshots to see the contents of the post.
Of course I haven't use every browser in existance, so I don't have idea if that
rule applies to other browsers. I might be wrong.
Quote:Tells us nothing about you, your art pleasures or anything at all about you.
You don't care about my sig? I don't care about yours. Simply as that. Democracy, they say. (
and that concept reminds me the "porn thread" debate)
Quote:Yes, signatures are handy. I would suggest that people include a link to their website, possibly a graphical one, but only button size. But no, not for what you would use them for. To quote you again, if we needed to know your art preferences, we would ask.
Two things:
- Refer to my previous answer. The pics (and that includes avatars) loads in the background, and that doesn't impair the normal use of the forum. Again, maybe I'm wrong, but I've seen the background loading of images in every browser. Piptol, since it seems that you experience slowdowns because of this apparent proliferation of banners, please enlighten me. And don't forget to tell me which browser are you using.
- I'm not stating my art preferences. I simply use that banner because I like it.
Quote:Having got that out, what's your new image gonna be?
No idea. Nothing useful, as always, I think. I got recently AutoFX DreamSuite and I'd like to play with it first. 8)
Quote:I guess you're just too cool Hex, everybody wants to jump on your banner bandwagon.
Nah, images usually breaks the monotony of plain text, and if used with discretion, it shouldn't bother.
Consider it part of the design.
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Summarizing: I've tested the following browsers, and all of these loads the content first and then the images (apparently that's a HTML standard, but I'm not sure): IE 5.0 and newer, NS 6.0 and newer, Opera and Lynx (duh! that doesn't load images at all!). If you can point me which browsers doesn't do that, I'd greatly appreciate that. Thanks in advance.