Posting pictures in a thread eats bandwidth = yes or no?

[bahn]

Originally posted by Mode7
The following is an image file, loading via an img tag:



The only information that resides on the board's servers to load the image is the small HTML tag. The following is a URL to the same image:





The server now has to contain an even longer HTML tag as well as display the URL as a hyperlink, increasing the data that must be carried substantially. The following is plain text:



This is the worst of all, as now the server must contain and transmit a string of ASCII characters even longer than the text link. So you see Bahn, if you really wanted to conserve bandwidth, you'd have everyone use the img tag feature.

No offense, but Kenshin offered the best explanation to put an end to this "debate" - the discussion is over. Thanks for your input...

(And what I want is for the throttle to be removed, mmkay?)

Cigs: Galleria people aren't posting 50 million pics a thread.

[cigsthecat]

Cigs: Galleria people aren't posting 50 million pics a thread.

I haven't made my way over yet.