File talk:E21 energonstar.gif

It's... well, it's a bit hefty on the loadtime, no?--Rosicrucian^Talk 15:53, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Only 50kb more than the limit for still images. I mean- I don't disagree... I guess the question is whether it's worth the tradeoff for the pretty. You could get a still for 50kb, a quarter of that. (And how much consideration youw ant to have for the ever-shrinking base of modem users, I suppose.)

I got the Spark animation down to 50KB, but this seems to loose any meaningful detail when you drop that much size.

Hh. Maybe I'll try dropping a few frames... if I can slim it by a good chunk it'd be worth retaining. -Derik 16:02, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. I do see you've pared the colors down to the bare minimum, which often helps. Probably just the number of frames that's doing it.--Rosicrucian^Talk 16:13, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Colors, plus masking to control where dithering occurs. (The white background is also to reduce file size.)

Dropping every other frame and then manually eliminating colors one by one seem to have been the magic combination- it cut 60% off the file size to a fairly respectable 108kb. -Derik 16:18, 27 May 2008 (UTC)