On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:56:45AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Look pretty good, but why is everything double spaced?
> >
>
> Because currently paragraph spacing is defined as:
>
> p {
> line-height: 1.4em;
> }
>
> Changing that to smaller value or just commenting out that rule in a CSS
> file would return spacing to default. Now you see why CSS is so Good
> Thing (TM). If most of the people wants the regular spacing it's an easy
> fix.
>
> No, I didn't write that rule. :-) I wouldn't mind the regular spacing.
I've done a bit of tuning and changed commented out the spacing above. It
still looks to be well spaced though but certainly not as much as before.
I've also converted a few of the images to other formats to find the
smallest possible high quality images for several of the main images we
have. Here are the times measured by www.cast.org/bobby for the new
pages/images (times are based on 28.8k modem)
URL Size Time (secs)
http://www.devel.lyx.org/~rae/www-user/ 6.43 K 1.79
http://www.devel.lyx.org/~rae/www-user/images/lyx_small3.png
1.00 K 0.28
http://www.devel.lyx.org/~rae/www-user/lyx_screen_sm.jpg
4.94 K 1.37
http://www.devel.lyx.org/~rae/www-user/lyx_printout_sm.jpg
3.11 K 0.86
http://www.devel.lyx.org/~rae/www-user/images/CCP2000_logo.jpg
4.89 K 1.36
http://www.devel.lyx.org/~rae/www-user/images/valid-xhtml10.gif
2.34 K 0.65
http://www.devel.lyx.org/~rae/www-user/images/vcss.gif
1.55 K 0.43
Total 24.27 K 6.74
HTTP Request Delays -- 3.50
Total + Delays -- 10.24
versus what is currently on www.lyx.org:
URL Size Time (secs)
http://www.lyx.org/ 6.43 K 1.79
http://www.lyx.org/images/lyx_small3.gif 13.93 K 3.87
http://www.lyx.org/lyx_screen_sm.gif 7.11 K 1.97
http://www.lyx.org/lyx_printout_sm.gif 4.26 K 1.18
http://www.lyx.org/images/CCP2000_logo.jpg 16.74 K 4.65
http://www.lyx.org/images/valid-xhtml10.gif 2.34 K 0.65
http://www.lyx.org/images/vcss.gif 1.55 K 0.43
Total 52.36 K 14.54
HTTP Request Delays -- 3.50
Total + Delays -- 18.04
So as you can see we can cut the download times in half by cutting the
download data in half. The only problem I have at the moment is that the
png LyX mascot (lyx_small3.png) which has large transparent areas is being
rendered with a white background by Opera5 and Netscape-4.77.
Galeon-0.10.2/Mozilla-0.8 and IE5.5 render the transparency of the png
image okay.
I do have some good news though. I have reduced the size of the
lyx_small3.gif image by more than half to 6021 bytes. Which is the
equivalent of adding 1.5s to the first bunch of numbers above. Still a
considerable saving. It would be nice to have the transparency of png
images working in Opera and Netscape as png is the only format other than
gif that is common and handles transparency. Maybe I'll try some other
png exporter just in case.
Allan. (ARRae)
P.S. John, it seems your original wish to change the format of some of
the images has come true -- and that request is what sparked the web site
overhaul in the first place!
