> From:         Jeff Brandenburg[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Barry Caplan wrote:
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> > I also can not remember ever see anyone one else ever turn images off, at
> > least in the last 3 years. Does anyone have any information, current or
> > otherwise, about who turns images of when, for how long, and why? Is it
> > true that people do that?
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> Well, all I have is a sample size of one, but here goes:
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> I turn off image loading at home.  I do it partly to improve speed, but
> mostly to avoid *animated* GIFs.  The greatest drawback is that this
> renders some sites unusable.
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I, too, turn images off at home -- to avoid animations (I have a Mac, and don't have Opera, which lets you turn this of on the PC), improve access time (i'm looking for information!) ....

I have a high end powerPC with a 56K modem -- I turn images back on when *I* want to see them -- or, when the designer requires them for navigation and i'm stuck cause I need to be on the site (http://www.compaq.com/ comes to mind). I then grouse a lot.

Most non-navigation graphics on most web sites are there to make the designer/owner happy -- illustrations, as it were, not "information."

And non-ALT text nav graphics drive me nuts -- poor design, horrible universality.



> I might turn images on and off more frequently, but for two misfeatures
> of NS 4.0x.  First, it's no longer a first-level menu option; I have to
> wander down to the "Preferences..." choice, expand one of the left-hand
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AH - I solved this with QuickKeys for the Mac -- I have a keyboard shortcut that turns images on or off ... It's Grand. Particularly since you have to turn the darn things on to get them to load on framed-sites.

Corollary  product for the wintel platform?



Kathy

ps - oh, java is off at work because of the firewall and javascript is often "off" when sites are using it in an annoying way


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