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From: Andreas Freise <adf@mpq.mpg.de>
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Subject: Re: The Ascii Art Dictionary has been moved
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 23:41:20 +0100
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On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, CeeJay `the critic' wrote:
[...]
> http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip/
> and store the files in gzipped compressed form.
> 
> Not only will the website load much faster (about 4 times for a normal site but
> since ascii-art compress really well I would say that the increase in speed
> would probably be more) but the disk space used will also be much less.
> .. And you will save A LOT of bandwidth.

Well, it is installed. I always thought that the Apache would just
decompress it before sending it. Now I have just read up the correct
info. Alas, it doesn't work together with the server-side includes
(on that server). I just tried it and it _is_ much faster (factor of 5).
That means that I should re-organise everything. :( Oh, nooo!
Well, well, maybe later - but thanks a lot for the info!

[...]
> I like the design - I feel that the different item in the dictionary should be
> easier to browse with the eyes .. try using alternating link colors or
> alternating tablecolours .. this will require a lot of extra htmlcode though,
> since a new colours will need to be defined every time .. but perhaps something
> clever could be made with stylesheets.
> I have an idea already. Tell me if you would like to me to investigate.

Hm, nice idea! It _will_ blow up the code though. That list is of course
created by a script - so the implementation would be no problem. I will
try how many extra bytes I would have to live with. And, yes, if you
got a smart idea how to do that `slim' (without anything dynamic) then
let me know please!

[...]
> And I didn't have to update my bookmarks .. it seems to me that my bookmark have
> pointed to http://www.ascii-art.de for over a year now .. have it really been
> that long ?

Clever you. ;)

[...]
> .. The ASCII-ART Dictionary ROCKS!

Thanks! (big smile)


:)
Andreas


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