Hammer wrote:
>That's precisely the point, Boanne - in all those "graphical" browsers
>this just turns off the pixel *presentation* of all sorts of inserts
>but still does not avoid downloading all those tagged files of
>wallpapers and other highly relevant "information".
In what browser is this? All the browser I've tried have NOT downloaded
images if I specified it to do so.
>(Test: dorwnload some URLs with "images turned off", cut the line, run
>those pages from the cache with "images on": and they are all there.)
Not for me...
>This though is what costs time, and connection fees.
>
>Genuine text browsers, like the Lynxes, wouldn't do that (but still
>allow to download the embedded "objects" explicitely, and separately).
As do the graphics browsers, the diffrence is that they have the text as
images as well (not handled by the PCs BIOS) and that might slow it down
for you.
//Bernie
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