[Foundation-l] when uploading pictures to commons ....

[Ray Saintonge]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>On 12/22/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
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>>Sounds like blaming the victim.  Those who have less sophisticated
>>systems are often also the ones who have less sophisticated knowledge
>>about such things.
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>Ignoring firefox bugs with SVGs for a moment (which really aren't
>related to image size so much)... is there *actually* an issue with
>low end systems *crashing* when they view large images?
>
>In order to test these complaints, I opened a 6000x7000 jpeg image on
>an old win95 box with 64 megs of ram without crashing.. although it
>was slow.
>
There are times when being slow is as good as crashing.  If after a full 
minute of my old computer trying to download that image it remains 
completely unresponsive it's quacking like a crash.  Things might have 
improved if I had waited another minute, but I don't know that.

Ec