Posted by David Graham on 02/02/06 18:46

"Brian Cryer" <brianc@127.0.0.1.activesol.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "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
>
>
>
Thanks to you both, got it now
David

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