> for example - will
> offer web-optimized encoding palettes of 216 colours, with adequate
> dithering algorithms that allow even users with lowly old VGA displays to
> view graphics correctly. Have you (Mike) tried this?
We should use the argument that reducing unneccessary colours can reduce the graphics file size, which speeds up loading for everyone. You will find it most amazing that I got a NASA Hubble Deep-Field Photo down from about 1.5Mb to 0.3Mb simply by reducing the colours from a few million to 65536, and I still cannot make out the difference between the two photos. That surely helps a lot, though I wonder why NASA's top brains didn't think of it (or perhaps they have more important things to do).
Nowadays, I don't think poor VGA cards or (most likely) overly slow CPUs will give us problems, but the speed of our Internet connection will definitely do so. Even if you have as much money (and bandwidth) as Bill gates, you will need to increase the bandwidth for the entire Internet for all your pages to load faster.
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