[Elsie]

commend you for using the height="" width="" parameters in your images

This is incorrect. It takes the SAME amount of time to download, and a bit LONGER to display it!

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This will merely change the DISPLAYED size. Your browser has to have ALL the data to be able to shrink OR expand to the size in those parameters.

The only way to make it faster is to shrink the picture in a photo or art program to a smaller size, then send it.

[snopercod]

OK, let me rephrase. You can read the text while waiting for the pictures to download. Otherwise, you stare at a blank screen until the entire thing is downloaded.

[Timesink]

This is incorrect. It takes the SAME amount of time to download, and a bit LONGER to display it!

We're not talking about trying to enlarge or reduce any graphics. It's just that when you provide the browser with the proper width and height of a graphic, it can go ahread and create a box for it and display the rest of the page, filling in the empty box as the picture data comes in. Without the height and width parameters, the browser can't display the page at all until the entire photo has been downloaded, because that's the only way for the browser to find out how big the photo is in the first place.