That is kind of a Borg answer. It just doesn't comport with the reality on the receiving end. When I did use a modem and an older computer long articles were troublesome. It is difficult to tell now as almost everything loads.
Fred
From: Timwi timwi@gmx.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 22:40:03 +0100 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Article size consistency 32k
Fred Bauder wrote:
The issue is always download speed when we serve a diverse international audience and at least make noises about serving the poor and the third world. Serving up articles over 100kb long with several images each over 200kb will basically stop a slower computer with limited memory operating with a modem in its tracks, sometimes even requiring a reboot. Essentially the site becomes unusable.
The size of the article source text has little correlation with the size of the HTML output, so that argument is not relevant to this discussion.
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