RE: [cobalt-users] New GUI For Raq3

["Dan" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Pictures don't typically impact download times that much,
> especially if they
> are small low color gifs that are cached--which is the case of the Cobalt.
> You download the image once and that is it.  Believe it or not what will
> impact your performance more than anything is the rendering the
> tables.  If
> you want to cut 'perceived' download times, break the tables into
> sets of 10
> or so.

I'm not sure if it's the server, but none of those images remains cached.
Every time I start a new browser session, the images download again.

>
> The images on the cobalt interface that pertain to the "virtual site list"
> take like 10k.  The ones that are repeated are less than 3k, and get
> cached... so the impact on a page with 90 domains is utterly negligible.
> The HTML alone would be more 80k.  And it gets even more
> negligible the more
> sites you have.  I can trim well more than 10k out of that just tweaking
> some HTML.

I'd certainly like to see the admin interface use no images and only text
links. Doing away with the JavaScript would be nice as well.

>
> > Adding email accounts that DONT need user accounts to work
>
> I'm not sure that I follow.  How would this work?  Do you mean forwarding
> accounts?

I think he simply means adding a POP user without also having it add an FTP
account and web directory. Possibly allowing you to specify the home
directory of the user when you create the account, or at least go back in
and change the user's home directory through the GUI.
Many sites would like to give a user access to upload to domain.com/news/ or
/sales/ or something similar without having to jump through telnet hoops and
creating links from ~username/ to news/.

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Dan Kriwitsky