[Gimp-web] News on Screenshots/Imagebox

[Jakub Steiner]

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 10:01 -0700, Akkana Peck wrote:
> Raphaël Quinet writes:
> > Well, turning off Javascript may not be the best option when you have
> > 10 other tabs open to other sites that need Javascript (and do not
> > have the same speed issues).
> 
> Realistically: how many people are going to turn off Javascript and
> give up things like google maps just so they can view screenshots
> on gimp.org? Is there a person anywhere who would make that tradeoff?
> 
> More likely, they'll just learn "never click on Screenshot when
> you're on the gimp site." (I learned that pretty quickly, browsing
> the site on an older machine.)

Where are we heading with this, please? If the alpha overlay is slow on
the machine, I would be very surprised if google maps was usable? Let's
not make this another one of those HTML is bad for mail threads. 

Let's just nuke imagebox and make it a 1999 website again.

-- 
Jakub Steiner <jimmac at gmail.com>