On 12/23/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 12/22/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
James Hare wrote:
I know it sounds tempting, but the "Crash my computer" button on Commons will just have to not be clicked. :)
In other words, if you know an image is large, as in very very large, don't click on the full-size version link.
Sounds like blaming the victim.
Sometimes the victim is also the one at fault.
Remember that the problem is *not* the size of the image: I can open with no problem 10000x10000 pixel images. But a complicated .svg file can freeze Firefox for a long time even if it is smaller. And the only information one can gather from the image description page is the image size, which is useless in this case.
The actual fault is in Firefox's plugin. Neither the user (who shouldn't be concerned with these kind of things) nor the image author (which is trying to do the best possible image, and should be praised for doing so) are to blame. That no browser, to my knowledge, is able to open complicated .svg files without bringing even good computers to their knees is unfurtunate, but I see no easy solution.
Alfio