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mortimer Premium account Joined: Jun 04 Points: 15075 Posts: 528 Posted: 2004-12-08 15:02:00    Hi GLOBOstaff Im found out that the big pictures take some time to fully load. Im surfing with firefox on a cable connection with 1000mb download capability. There are two steps of the picture loading proces with firefox. There is quite a quick first picture with a low resolution available and when finally the whole file is downloaded the resolution gets better. The rating dropdown list however loads instantly. What bothers me now is this: I'm assuming that the same applies for people with a slower connection speed. I fear that some people rate pictures that are not fully loaded and therefore with a lower resolution. Is there the possibility to have the rating drop down list be loaded only when the full image is downloaded? just some thoughts Martin --- Today is the first day of the rest of your life, enjoy it! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact mortimer   andreas Joined: May 02 Points: 8313 Posts: 809 Posted: 2004-12-08 17:09:00    Hi Martin, you are on a 1MBit line and you can see different quality steps?! There must be a problem with the connection. Pictures on GLOBO have rarly more than 100 Kbyte. Together with the rest of the site it does not need more than 1 second to display with your speed. Dial up users however do have that problem. But wait, isn't it better for them to be able to start reading and see something instead of waiting with a blank screen before the whole page including picture is donwloaded? Thats the goal of good programming technique. You make it possible to download the text first before all the pix arive. So you rarly have a blank screen. Due to that fact it is unfortunatelly inpossible to controll the apearance of the drop down box for that reason. I bet the learning effect (once you have seen a few pages on GLOBO) you start to learn that you have to wait a little while. People on such a low speed connection are also used to that procedure, so I do not see a problem here. Best regards, Andy Reply    Reply with quote    Contact andreas   marianne Premium account Joined: Sep 03 Points: 20248 Posts: 349 Posted: 2004-12-09 10:03:00    Mortimer, I have exactly the same problem with pictures. I have broadband and use firefox. This problem started when I changed to windows XP. Do you think XP is the culprit? Marianne --- “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson Reply    Reply with quote    Contact marianne   rangutan Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 34752 Posts: 1044 Posted: 2004-12-10 01:10:00    ...could well be XP needs a hardware upgrade. I checked my neighbours XP performance (an older PC) and it is appauling slow on the net, exactly as described above, not only GLOBO pages but media files generally. He says thats why he is a member with us but hasnt contributed much yet! I can remember returning to the use of Win98 in April (still use it) because of similar problems - I needed a new computer (at least a Pentium III 800MHz and atleast 512MB RAM) if XP was to run properly for all the programs I run simultaneously, ie. web-provider, photo-editor, media-viewer, firewall, anti-virus, printer, all at once. Win98 does all the above perfectl fast for me on a PentiumII 333MHz and 128MB RAM - GLOBO pictures all open instantly with broadband. I know things are much much easier to install and fix on XP, so my hardware update is due sometime! --- Rudolf "Rangutan" Graspointner Reply    Reply with quote    Contact rangutan   mortimer Premium account Joined: Jun 04 Points: 15075 Posts: 528 Posted: 2004-12-10 10:28:00    Hi I think the culprit is firefox but am not sure. I'm running win2000pro and mac OSX both with wlan conection to the cable on both computers I have firefox... I tend to have more problems with the quality steps on OSX... ? Martin --- Today is the first day of the rest of your life, enjoy it! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact mortimer   marianne Premium account Joined: Sep 03 Points: 20248 Posts: 349 Posted: 2004-12-12 10:52:00    I have the same problem of slow access when I use interner explorer. Did any one of you try Opera? Would that browser make a difference? Marianne --- “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson Reply    Reply with quote    Contact marianne