Posted by Stuart Miller on 09/20/06 04:58

I have a hobby site, with a lot of pictures of family and various other
hobby group activities. I have always used 'the gimp' to create small
images, about 160x120 to display with a link to the real image if the caller
wants to see it. This way I can cut the bandwidth usage and allow the pages
to load faster, particularly for dial up users.

If I specify, for example, a 1600x1200 picture into a cell size of 160x120,
when does the compression take place? Does apache compress the image before
sending, or does the viewer's browser do the compression? Or can this be
controlled?

I would be a help if I did not have to create small images of everything,
but if the compression is done by the browser then I am still transmitting
the entire image, so I am not creating faster loading pages.

Thanks

Stuart

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