Posted by dorayme on 10/03/07 20:05

In article <lCPMi.30721$eY.25627@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net>,
William Gill <noreply@example.invalid> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
> > If you have text in a box (not a picture of text), you won't get
> > much benefit *overhead wise*.
> >
> I was looking at ways to keep Kb bloat under control. Even the smallest
> text graphic takes a couple Kb. A few characters of text "treated like
> a graphic" would only take a few bytes.

Sure, if you were tempted to make every heading a pic, every
caption... In many situations, the more significant reasons for
using text rather than pics of text are to do with ease of change
for the author, ease for the user of the website with different
visual or other requirements... I mean, are you making a site
that shows signs of a bloat problem?

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dorayme

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