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It's somehow comforting to see that image maps from 1994 still perform like absolute crap in 2021. It's just an extra bit of authenticity.
by chc 6y ago
It's somehow comforting to see that image maps from 1994 still perform like absolute crap in 2021. It's just an extra bit of authenticity.
- wahern 6y ago> image maps from 1994 still perform like absolute crap in 2021 I don't follow. Are you referring to the progressive GIF rendering? It seems to be working beautifully and as intended. It's a 40K GIF that downloads at 5K/s, presumably because of limited server-side throughput (artificial or real). If you just open it locally or host it somewhere else it renders instantaneously, without any hint of its progressive encoding. Or maybe that's what you were referring to--the possibly deliberate uplink throttling--and we just have different opinions about what's "beautiful". I'm curious if anyone has written a JavaScript library that emulates the browser rendering experience of 1990s modem links. That'd be cool, both from an implementation standpoint as well as viewing experience.
- morsch 6y agoNo, he is referring to the image map on that site. Although it worked fine for me. Here's an appropriately old school reference: https://cmd.inp.nsk.su/old/cmd2/manuals/web/using_cgi/ch9.htm https://cmd.inp.nsk.su/old/cmd2/manuals/web/using_cgi/ch9.ht...