funny...
[1/2] from: biuro:terminal:sky:pl at: 28-May-2002 1:49
I look at IOS Reblet Applications on RebolTech site and...
400 KB for a page???
faster with less bandwidth
...
Alekk
[2/2] from: jason::cunliffe::verizon::net at: 27-May-2002 21:19
> I look at IOS Reblet Applications on RebolTech site and...
> 400 KB for a page???
>
> "faster with less bandwidth"...
I guess you mean http://rebol.com/reblets.html
That's because there are 15 images weighing in at 377Kb
I suspect they were made from REBOL directly.
Thus legible but not optimized for size.
{yet another reason why rebol needs CALL/SHELL bundled - for access to
ImageMagick on servers}
Out of curiosity I ran them through Fireworks 4 batch process..
GIF [Web216] >>> 306Kb
JPEG [smaller] >>> 172Kb
One could do better in terms of size/quality with some playing around.
The JPEGS are fuzzier. Photos are easy to shrink [3-7Kb], but it's a tricky
tradeoff getting text to read well small sometimes.
I think it would be better if the page was wider format and just had a big
juicy dense array of _smaller_ reblet images with minimal Title/captions.
Then have clickthroughs on each to give full description and larger screen shots
to focus on, preferably with some sort of rollovers to help explain. Plus
PREV/NEXT buttons or some such to let one take the tour through the reblet apps.
..so much for backseat web design..
./Jason