Posted by Brian Cryer on 02/02/06 18:13

"David Graham" <david.graham18@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> When I right click on a .png file in windows explorer and go to properties
> I
> get:
>
> Size 1.98 KB
> Size on disk 4.00KB
>
> Well, why the difference and which is the important figure for a budding
> web
> designer?
>
> thanks
> David

Read both of the posts by Spartanicus, they cover almost everything.

In answer to your point "which is the important figure", if you are
considering download times then its the 1.98KB figure because that's the
amount of data that will need to be transferred from the webserver to the
client for the image.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

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