[time-nuts] What size graphs do people like? (How big is yourscreen?)

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Mon Aug 6 22:59:17 UTC 2012


On 08/06/2012 11:08 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message<19D39F6978C14DE88D869CF287CAA920 at photo>, "DaveH" writes:
>
>> Also, many people __still__ do not
>> enjoy full bandwidth for their internet connections (I am one of these poor
>> sods) and a full-size image is not "polite" as it takes a large chunk of
>> bandwidth to download before the person can see if it is of interest to
>> them.
>
> That is _exactly_ why you should use a vectorformat like SVG: Raster
> format is a waste of bytes for line graphics.

Depends. Sometimes there is a lot of data that lines up on the same row 
of pixels and take forever to load with close to none progress.

There is no "right" here. Just different extremes.

Cheers,
Magnus



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