On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 13:44 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
Unless you are really clever with your sytylesheets (put the image near the end of the page but use stylesheets to position it later) I suspect that image block could slow down the loading of the text on the page for users on horribly slow dialup connections who just want to quickly read the text and get to the downloads. (On the rare occassions I view the site using dialup the screenshots already slow things down significantly.)
Not if the image is applied using CSS rather than an img element... if it were me I'd probably put "Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics Editor" in a h2, hide the text and apply the background image to that. Which is the more semantic solution anyway, because the image is really just presentational.