I know you have been very diligent at abiding by Amy's guidelines for byte sizes, but if everyone would try to get in the habit of also posting the dimensions in their img src commands, it would make reading the thread and comments for any with slower connections so much easier and more pleasant. When you right-click a graphic to save it and/or see how large it is in bytes, there is also another VERY IMPORTANT PART under 'properties' besides the url and the byte size. The width and height are listed as "Dimensions" (I am pretty sure you already know that! Some may not), and the width is always first and the height is second (i.e. Dimensions: 600 x 500 would be width=600 and height=500)
I also want to say that I never knew the importance of including the width and height when FR was still 'young' and there weren't nearly as many people posting graphics as now! But the reason it makes a difference for slow conections is that if one is opening a thread or their comment page for the first time, when there's a graphic posted without the dimensions specified, the space it takes up is that tiny, tiny little square, no matter what the physical size is. Then when it starts to open, it begins to open the full size the graphic IS. So, imagine if there are numerous graphics your browser hasn't cached yet, and none of them has the actual width and height specified, the text will start to drop down every time that tiny tiny little square opens to it's full size. Every graphic, every one of them opening means that everything below it has to adjust for it AFTER they open, whereas if you specify the correct width and height, everyone's browser has that 'space' already built in, and no text gets jumpy and moves around as things begin to open.
Some of you are already doing this. It's easier to post graphics without the width and height, but it's a habit that can be broken with just a little extra time, and soon you won't even think of posting one without those dimensions. EVERY graphic! EVERY time! (okay, tiny little smileys not so important, but everything else is!)
ST.LOUIE1, many years ago, sent me a link to a website where you can easily paste in your graphic location (url) and it will give you the entire html code with width and height dimensions included, all ready to copy and past into your post. I use this link several times a day. I don't know what I would do without it. This way it takes only seconds to paste in my image url and click "Generate Image Tag Code". (I usually ignore the "Insert Alt Text").
Here is the link to the page that has this handy-dandy tool.....
Thanks for the info!
I didn’t know width was preferred before height yet it makes sense.