Re:Web Bloat Score Calculator
by belvoran on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:51AM
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Quite funny. My blog page (with text only) has score 4.06. Converting it to image is stupid. Btw. I've been working with a Korean company on a couple of Korean websites. What they provided was ONLY IMAGES. All the texts were images, new content was in images, all the changes were just image changes. It was a nightmare.
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A lot of Japanese websites are the same. All the navigation buttons are images for example, I found that quite a bad experience over slow wifi!
Having dealt with the Korean web (as a user) it was daunting.
Once had a customer who did the same. His reason at the time was that his customers see boxes otherwise. This was one of my first projects and I was still in school then. Didn't know anything about unicode, plus unicode was not that popular then.
I guess, may be your customer has the same problem.
Re:Web Bloat Score Calculator
by mikegerwitz on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @08:44AM
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Setting aside countless other obvious issues, converting text to images is a huge accessibility issue.
Lucky it's not based in the US, that's the sort of thing that gets you sued.