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Re:Using an ancient JavaScript technique to drive conversion... by coderdude on Thursday March 31, 2011 @12:53PM (#2392383)
The image of the coffee cup (the only one I can bring up) is only 46kb. That loads pretty quick.
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Re:Using an ancient JavaScript technique to drive conversion... by StavrosK on Thursday March 31, 2011 @02:42PM (#2393008)
What a brave new world we live in, when the words "only" and "46kb" are mentioned next to each other in a positive way when talking about the web.

Am I the only one who balks at including a 5kb JS file, even if I need it? At least, with automatic media managers that merge everything into one file, I don't have to worry about the extra requests as much.

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Re:Using an ancient JavaScript technique to drive conversion... by true_religion on Friday April 01, 2011 @03:55AM (#2395398)
Yep. I don't really see the problem if your market is B2B in the US or Western Europe. Those shopping for their business at work, ought to be using high speed connections (albeit ones that may or may not be saturated by fellow workers).

If your market is developed Asia, then most cellphones have better internet speeds equal to Australian broadband, so that extra 5kb is a rounding error in transmission time.

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