Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kit I did not take your reply as a personal attack, so all is well on that front and no apologies are needed. However, I do stand by my opinions, and Brian expressed the reasoning behind them much more eloquently than I could. Nathan Kit McChesney | acmefoto wrote: > Sonny-- > > Again, I was not speaking about Nathan! I'm sorry that my post was > understood as being directed at him, not at all. If you review the posts > we've had (which have been, admittedly, a royal waste of time at this point) > there was one particular posting that complained about someone's being > arrogant by asking others to use a particular type of software in order to > view the site. > > Again, I wasn't referring to Nathan. Did I say that I wasn't referring to > Nathan? Yes, I believe I did say that. > > I will apologize for making any kind of offhand reference to anyone at all, > one that was obviously misunderstood. For that, my sincere apologies, to > Nathan, and to everyone on the list. Mea culpa. > > Kit > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of SonC (Sonny > Carter) > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 8:46 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Lets try again My Photography Website > > > Kit, > > If you are selling hot dogs for a living, you wrap them in napkins, > not duct-tape. > > My problem with Marko's site is not flash or anything like that. I > don't think Nathan was being mean spirited when he gave some common > sense advice. I was certainly not trying to be mean spirited when I > pointed out that Marko needs to size his pictures appropriately. The > thumbs are 60x40 pixels, way too small to use as a reference. > > Skipping the intro, and working as fast as I could, on a T1 line, it > was 40 seconds before I could get the first picture loaded. That > picture is 287 Kb and 378 pixels wide x 259 high, rather small to > view, especially in light of the amount of stuff in the picture. > > Had he optimized it at 100% quality, it would be just 40 KB, and would > have loaded in 15 seconds on the slowest dialup. > > Sonny > http://www.sonc.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2003.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html