[css-d] Max length for image file names?

2010-09-18 Thread Lalena

Hi everyone,
I've tested my pages on Firefox and Safari and IE8, and all looks  
fine. But when I check on my old version of IE, IE5.2 for Mac, I get  
red "X" symbols in place of some image files whose names are too long.
I haven't figured out exactly what the maximum allowed number of  
characters is, but I was wondering if you all think it is worth the  
bother to go through my entire website and change all the filenames  
and the links in the code (hundreds of images and pages) for this old  
version of IE. I mean, is there some other reason to keep the file  
names under a certain number of characters?
Most frustrating is the fact that my file names aren't even that long;  
for example: "LalenaFisher_ill_BooksOnBalls_th.gif" is too long, but  
"LalenaFisher_ill_Books_th.gif" seems okay. I have a lot of images and  
do need to get fairly specific in the filenames, so cutting them down  
would actually be a bit of a problem.

Thank you!
Lalena
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Re: [css-d] Max length for image file names?

2010-09-18 Thread JWN

Afternoon Lalena

You wrote;



Hi everyone,
I've tested my pages on Firefox and Safari and IE8, and all looks  fine. 
But when I check on my old version of IE, IE5.2 for Mac, I get  red "X" 
symbols in place of some image files whose names are too long.
I haven't figured out exactly what the maximum allowed number of 
characters is, but I was wondering if you all think it is worth the 
bother to go through my entire website and change all the filenames  and 
the links in the code (hundreds of images and pages) for this old  version 
of IE. I mean, is there some other reason to keep the file  names under a 
certain number of characters?
Most frustrating is the fact that my file names aren't even that long; 
for example: "LalenaFisher_ill_BooksOnBalls_th.gif" is too long, but 
"LalenaFisher_ill_Books_th.gif" seems okay. I have a lot of images and  do 
need to get fairly specific in the filenames, so cutting them down  would 
actually be a bit of a problem.

Thank you!
Lalena



If you have a question about styling images this is the place to ask. 
However, you will probably get better responses to this question at 
Webdesign L [1] or one of the one of the other sites listed in the CSS 
Discuss wiki off-topic page. [2]


Best
Jim Nannery
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