[gutvol-p] Size/image limit in Web browser?

Greg Newby gbnewby at pglaf.org
Tue Jan 3 23:40:41 PST 2006


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



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