Fw: [Mid] Announcing more graphics

Let me see if I've got this. When I copy-and-paste a picture into an
e-mail, LiveJournal post, or webpage, what I'm actually putting in is a bit
of code that says "Every time someone looks at this, go fetch such-and-such
an image from such-and-such a place where images are stored." And Grizel
wants us to store copies of the images on our own computers for that bit of
code to point to, instead of bothering her computer every time one of our
friends wants to look at the pretty picture.

Is that it?

--Katerin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Drew" <drew@drewncapris.net>
> To: <sca-middle@midrealm.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 8:14 AM
> Subject: 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
> > >
> >
> >
> > From: "Drew" <drew@drewncapris.net>
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Received on Fri Jun 17 10:03:01 2005