From Philosophy to Program Size (2003)

Re:From Philosophy to Program Size (2003) by titzer on Thursday February 09, 2017 @04:59PM (#13611411)

I don't really buy that acres of whitespace and gradients really describe much information.

Considered at the boundary of your awareness--in that you are mostly unaware of all the pixels on the page, then absolutely not true. A typical news article might be a few KB of text but MBs and MBs of images that you never look at.

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Re:From Philosophy to Program Size (2003) by dmreedy on Thursday February 09, 2017 @09:09PM (#13612761)

I'm talking about Shannon Information specifically. In which case, acres of whitespace and gradients very much are information. Calling them "whitespace" and "gradients" is a significant act of compression in and of itself.

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Re:From Philosophy to Program Size (2003) by titzer on Friday February 10, 2017 @02:24PM (#13618089)

I understand your argument, but even then I don't think it's quite right; there is lots of room to improve on the size of a webpage vs its rendered pixels on the screen, even with the fancy fonts and gradients and animations. I still don't believe it's really megabytes. Have you seen 4k demo contests, btw? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w_xEUoK79o

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