This is how much Netvibes would consume just to access it (from about:cache):
Memory cache device
Number of entries: 275 Maximum storage size: 32768 KiB Storage in use: 174243 KiB Inactive storage: 0 KiB
It takes approximately 170 MiB of memory cache whenever I access my Netvibes, and the maximum limitation don’t even apply; I guess I’d put too much widgets on the page…
因為發現0.9 版的設定檔路徑和 0.8.2 不同，出的那天我忙著把中文增強包升級，測過沒問題之後就把 Stellarium 關掉，也沒看新版本的新功能。
現在在家裡用螢幕打開來一看，Wow，夜晚的星星變超多的！原本一放大就會有略顯稀疏的感覺，現在看起來越來越像真正的星空了。中國星宿反而沒有中文翻譯的問題也解決了。現在剩下比較大的問題只有輸入法啟動不能，無法用中文搜尋星空了… 這真的需要懂程式的人去進去CVS挖挖看；我和其他中文社群成員都無法做這件事。或許CJK另外兩個國家會有人丟patch出來？
有興趣歡迎下載，連結裡面有主程式和中文化程式的下載。
縮圖除了節省頻寬、快速下載以外，更重要的目的是讓小圖片看起來清晰：像是以下是兩張之前玩 Onslaught 的螢幕截圖：一張是縮圖 ，另一張是大圖再用 CSS 指定為小圖的大小；後圖的失真程度明顯較嚴重。
至少在 IE 和 Firefox 這個問題是存在的。我不知道為什麼當他們努力在文字平滑上下功夫，想把網頁變好看的時候，竟然會忘記圖這麼重要的因素。是為了要節省圖片取樣需要的CPU？
做演示實驗網站時的小感想；演示實驗網站是用 PHP GD2 縮圖的。對了：前幾天玩 Safari 3 beta for Windows 發現它沒有這個問題；看樣子還是水果店注重外觀大於效能(笑)。
Besides saving the bandwidth, one of the main reasons we thumbnail our images on the web is because we want them look clear even if they are in small sizes – we simply don’t trust the way browsers re-sample images: for the screenshots above taken from Onslaught, the later one (a big image down-sized by CSS instead of thumbnailing on the server side) looks far more worse than the first one (which the image itself is already size small on Flickr).
I have no idea how come IE and Firefox guys are working so hard trying to make webpages looks nicer by smoothing the fonts, they’d all forget how important images mean in webpages now days. Trying to save CPU resources I think. The only browser that re-sample images nicely is Safari 3 beta for Windows, A.F.A.I.K.