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From: petecasso@aol.com (PeteCasso)
Subject: file size (was: ascii art for email ...)
Date: 1997/09/03
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This thread is diverging in all directions, I am breaking it up into three
topics, this article is on the third topic.

1) html and javascript
2) viewable on all computers
3) file size

I did make systematic file size comparisons about six or seven months ago.
You can very quickly tell how large the exact file sizes of my cartoons
are. For example, the file size of a panel of 66 x 30 is exactly 1980 bytes
(pure ascii). Converted into gif, the file size will be 2.8 kb, just 40%
larger than the pure ascii file (this assumes that you know how to keep gif
file sizes small.) 

Assuming that you download at 1 kb/s, there is only a small difference in
download time, 2 seconds vs. 2.8 seconds.

Moreover, gif renders a lot cleaner than html/ascii on the web. Those and
a few other factors made me convert ascii/html to gif, although the pics
remain the same. Ha, there will be flames!

Check the infamous DejaNews archives for further details, but the above is
the essence. You will find that the file size argument is pretty weak.

>did you take that computer science course yet?
Dear Veronicastein, in case you have not noticed yet, I have been in ascii
... continuing the journey ... ha, more flames!

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