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[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

There was a comment in here somewhere from Chad I think regarding images 
and dialup users - when returning query results, etc. - missed it on my 
larger reply...

Images (and overall page size) returned from a user query should 
*always* be "accessible" size, meaning assume a mediocre dialup connection.
Total page size should be ~100K or less.

If "lots" of images are returned, they should be relatively small 
thumbnails linked to larger versions (in rows or whatever) and should be 
batched if more than a large handful or two are returned. 
User-adjustable batch size would be nice some future day, meanwhile just 
use a number that keeps the page size small enough.

We can always provide links to massive image files for those with the 
bandwidth for them.
We should never return massive image (or any other kine) files by 
default (until in some far future enhancement we ask user to indicate 
their bandwidth and then key allowable page size off of that... :-)

I will be all over this when we get rolling, as I think I am probably 
the only one here on dialup...!

For web UI design, see useit.com as one excellent resource...for CSS and 
web standards see alistapart.com and resources linked there...


tropically,
John S.


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