downloading web pages made faster

[Basil Fowler]

Or - horror of horrors - perhaps web authors could avoid all unnecessary 
bandwith-hogging graphics and other "features"

Basil 

On Friday 28 Nov 2003 00:00, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> dcw wrote:
> > I saw an article several weeks ago about some software that would make 
downloading web
> > pages faster. I did not bookmark the page and now I can not find it. Some 
of the things
> > it did was to not display the background, ads, etc. I have Mandrake 9.1.
> > 
> > Can someone point me to the right place?
> > 
> I've seen lots of stuff about this.  But -- my $0.02 -- it is just stuff as 
far as *NIX is 
> concerned because the only way to download a web page faster with dial up is 
to have 
> someone compress it on the other end of you connection.
> 
> Since HTML is text, it *could* be compressed -- why it isn't is something I 
am at a loss 
> to understand.  Note that IIUC Linux already is able to decompress it.
> 
> --
> JRT
> 
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