Re: Ani Backgrounds ugh

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 00:14:27 -0500, you wrote:

>Thanks for the advice, Eric and everyone else who responded to my
question.
>A friend of mine really wants an animated bg, and I thought it
sounded neat.
>Guess I really didn't take time to think it through.  I agree that it
would
>be distracting and take forever to download.  I will try to
discourage her
>from using one.  Thanks again.

Using IE 3, I visited a homepage the other day and couldn't understand
why it was taking an age to d/l... turned out the background was an
animated gif of the dancing baby.... 350K ! And it didn't even dance !
I can only assume the author had never heard of the word
"bandwidth"....


Tim. 
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