RE: [Mid] Announcing more graphics

Basically, Grizel is trying to say "Use these little graphics on your
web-pages, if you like -- but don't link to the originals on my server, put
copies on your own servers and link to them."

Web pages are made up of something called HTML -- HyperText Markup Language.
If you ever VIEW SOURCE of a web-page, the code you see is HMTL. Lots of
the screen is taken up with words inside brackets, like this: <img
src="picname.gif"> (HTML mail users won't have seen the IMG SRC command
there, maybe).

Ok, so the HTML commands do different things -- they make the email address
of a person active, so you can click on it, they change the color of the
text, and they call images. When an HTML page calls an image, or a graphic,
it's saying "look for this graphic here." If you link to a graphic that's
within the same domain space, you're looking for a graphic that you've
uploaded. However, you can also link to a graphic that's outside your
domain space. When that happens, and a user goes to your web-page, your
HTML page uses up bandwidth to talk to the outside server, and takes
processing power and bandwidth from the original graphics provider.

That's what Grizel colorfully doesn't want to happen.

I'm not sure this makes much more sense. Essentially, it's like using
someone else's electrical outlet to power your kiln.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sca-middle@midrealm.org
> [mailto:owner-sca-middle@midrealm.org] On Behalf Of Katerin
> ferch Gwenllian
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 6:45 AM
> To: sca-middle@midrealm.org
> Subject: Re: [Mid] Announcing more graphics
>
> okay..now oyu lost me...I cna down load to my hard drive, BUT
> not hotlink ot form oyu? HTis maybe beyound me...sigh..i odnt
> wan tot steal form you, but arnt I doing tha tif I down oad
> it in the first place?
> I may be to ignorant for this..
> Hroar
>
> Don't feel too bad, Hroar -- I don't understand it, either.
>
> --Katerin
>

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