Re: [OT] ideal file size of a jpeg or gif image

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

<rolfe@shado.bozier.net> wrote in message
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> In article <xsPN5.78359$YX4.2448356@news2.giganews.com>,
> Dave Proctor <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > It is a bit like publishing in braille - I could adopt a viewpoint that
I
> > will only publish in braille, and anyone who wants to read my literary
> > offerings needs to learn braille. Anyone who does not learn braille can
be
> > damned, after all, I am perfectly entitled to publish in braille, am I
not?
> >
> > Of course, this would be silly, as not everyone can read braille.
>
> Maybe, maybe not.  After all, this is the Internet.  Anyone(*) can put
> up a site targetted at any audience they choose.  It could be in Braille,
> Aramaic, Esperanto or Morse code;  it's the author's right to choose.  If
> you don't like it, then too bad.  There's certainly plenty of other sites
> to choose from :-)
>
> For what it's worth, many of today's "standards" arose from people trying
> out something and getting enough people to agree that it was a "good
thing".
> Plenty of silly ideas bit the dust in the meantime, but that's half the
> fun, no?
>
> And speaking of fun, isn't that why people put up these sites?  I know
> that's certainly my only motivation.  Constructive criticism is fair
> enough(**), but personal attacks???  The "old" adage that "it's all just
> 1s and 0s" always seems to hold.
>
> If James wants to publish high-quality images, then that is his right.  If
> you want to help promulgate a web site standard layout, than that's a good
> thing too.

No problem there - but he should not go around telling people that it is
accepted practice to do whatever you like, and that is what he is doing.

> But please, take this discussion to email because this is aus.rail and
> we're getting bored with the whole thing :-)

And that is why it is marked [OT] (meaning OFF TOPIC) at the start of the
subject. So please feel free to ignore the thread.

Dave