Fw: Re: [gutvol-p] Size/image limit in Web browser?
Meant to send this to the list as a whole. Forgot to check the reply headers before hitting send. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Hutchinson" <joshua@hutchinson.net>
I've never heard of a hard limit. I've seen IE slow to a claw if memory becomes an issue and at least one some browsers, it won't display the text properly until all the images have been downloaded. I know recent versions of Firefox and IE will display hundreds of images in one document, because I've done it... It loads more slowly, obviously, but it runs.
Multi-part HTML files are more of a pain in the patoot (you can't search through the whole document, if you want a copy, you have to keep track of multiple files, etc). I don't like them and would prefer all one file.
Josh
----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Newby" <gbnewby@pglaf.org> To: gutvol-p@lists.pglaf.org Subject: [gutvol-p] Size/image limit in Web browser? Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:40:41 -0800
Has anyone heard about the following:
Let me just address one issue. The reason I organized it the way I did -- into chapters vice a single web page -- was because just before I got started on it I ran across a comment by someone -- I think it was somewhere on the Project Gutenberg site -- that said that some browsers (I think the reference was actually about Windows IE) are limited to no more than something like 90 graphic images on a "page". I think the comment said there was also a MB size limit. So when I saw that I knew I had somewhere in the neighborhood of 300+ images so I'd bust that limit. So although I was aware of your format guidelines I thought it was going to take this project straight into a application crash. So that's why I did what I did. Do you know if this graphics limitation still exists (or if it ever did)?
The message was in response to my request to join a multi-file HTML eBook with tons of images (300) into a single file.
Thanks for any info or feedback you might be able to provide. -- Greg _______________________________________________ gutvol-p mailing list gutvol-p@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-p
I've never heard of a hard limit. I've seen IE slow to a claw if memory becomes an issue and at least one some browsers, it won't display the text properly until all the images have been downloaded.
Older browser versions and/or older computers certainly have trouble with large HTML files and/or lots of images. But, if PG hasn't received too many complaints on this with existing large files, perhaps it's manageable for most people.
Multi-part HTML files are more of a pain in the patoot (you can't search through the whole document, if you want a copy, you have to keep track of multiple files, etc). I don't like them and would prefer all one file.
Ideally both would be available, but perhaps that's something to leave to others. -- Cheers, Scott S. Lawton http://Classicosm.com/ - classic books http://ProductArchitect.com/ - consulting
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