Originally Posted by JRF
Because the image is not on the FT server so the traffic is not going over the FT server. It is slowing down your connection to the net, not the FT traffic.... If you still don't understand, then you should not be arguing the point.
hehe...Oh, trust me I understand the topic intimately...I just dont understand YOU, as you make no sense.
So...according to your logic:
1. Avatars slow down connections
2. All Avatars should be hosted on third party servers because of this.
-BUT-
3. Every forum page has Avatars.
4. Every FT user would have to load these Avatars anyway.
Your conclusion: Everyones connection to FT will remain peppy because these speed reducing Avatars will be loaded from elsewhere. But since everyone has to load them, everyones connection will be slowed...albeit from somewhere else. Yup...that makes perfect sense.
I suppose you could make the argument that these 3rd party servers could take there own sweet time to load the Avatars, while the rest of the page loads quickly around them, but that could look look worse then the avatars themselves when pages dont load, bad links, etc....and you didnt address the size & content issue. Care to?