links on an image

thanks for the help guys, iv decided not make a splash page after all ...hehehe

You're killin' me! lol

Hmm? Especially dial-up users can profit from progressive encoding.

Not so much when it's a huge image like this ... then the user has to look
at the first stage of a very poorly rendered image ... then the second ...
etc. until the whole image is downloaded.

In IE it makes it so that nothing appears until the entire image has
download ... perhaps giving the impression that nothing is happening ...
especially in this case of such a large image.
A non-progressive JPG will at least start to fill the page, top to bottom
allow the user to see how incredibly slow this process is in this case.

.oO(rrose selavy)

To
complicate matters further it's a progressive jpeg so when it first loads in
browers that will display the progressions while loading, the image is
degraded further while the users on dial-ups wait a long time for this huge
image to load and finally be presented 'whole.'

Hmm? Especially dial-up users can profit from progressive encoding.

In Internet Explorer (where jpg progression is not supported) users will
just have to stare at a blank table frame for a long time waiting for the
image to appear.

Even if IE doesn't support progressive encoding doesn't mean that it's
completely useless. Recent browsers support it and allow the user to get
an impression of an image right after the first few downloaded bytes.

if i remake the pic to have enter in it ..how would i make that into a
link..?

By adding a hotspot to the "enter' portion and linking the site URL to it,
but probably no one is going to wait that long anyway.

ACK

Micha

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"Michael Fesser" <netizen (AT) gmx (DOT) net> wrote

.oO(rrose selavy)

To
complicate matters further it's a progressive jpeg so when it first loads
in
browers that will display the progressions while loading, the image is
degraded further while the users on dial-ups wait a long time for this
huge
image to load and finally be presented 'whole.'

Hmm? Especially dial-up users can profit from progressive encoding.

In Internet Explorer (where jpg progression is not supported) users will
just have to stare at a blank table frame for a long time waiting for the
image to appear.

Even if IE doesn't support progressive encoding doesn't mean that it's
completely useless. Recent browsers support it and allow the user to get
an impression of an image right after the first few downloaded bytes.

if i remake the pic to have enter in it ..how would i make that into a
link..?

By adding a hotspot to the "enter' portion and linking the site URL to
it,
but probably no one is going to wait that long anyway.

ACK

Micha

.oO(rrose selavy)

A non-progressive JPG will at least start to fill the page, top to bottom
allow the user to see how incredibly slow this process is in this case.

OK, I see what you mean. So while progressive JPEGs are quite useful in
other browsers, they may become a usability problem in IE. Damnit.

Micha