what is spacer.gif in imageready?

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On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:03:12 +0100, "Alen Botica" scribbled:

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It takes up space, hence the name.
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a lot of web designers will use a spacer.gif. It's a 1x1 transparent gif image, that you can use to fill in space (w/o being visible), and you can resize it any size in the html coding. It's commonly used to fill empty table cells, or force invisible indents.

"Alen Botica" wrote in message
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Fungusamungus wrote:
a lot of web designers will use a spacer.gif. It's a 1x1 transparent gif image, that you can use to fill in space (w/o being visible), and you can resize it any size in the html coding. It's commonly used to fill empty table cells, or force invisible indents.

"Alen Botica" wrote in message

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Used by designers who dont know any better.

Stylesheets are what you are SUPPOSED to use... spacer images are just... well... silly.

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Fungusamungus wrote:
a lot of web designers will use a spacer.gif. It's a 1x1 transparent gif image, that you can use to fill in space (w/o being visible), and you can resize it any size in the html coding. It's commonly used to fill empty table cells, or force invisible indents.

"Alen Botica" wrote in message

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Used by designers who dont know any better.

Stylesheets are what you are SUPPOSED to use... spacer images are just... well... silly.

A rather snobby attitude, there is no 'supposed to use' in design work. It's also rather snobby on the grounds that where as you may have had the benefit of a formal education in web design many are self taught or educated to a high leval in some other disipline and web design is must have quickly requirement.

Beats me that you bother to post with a snobby reply rather than make any efforet to address the question. Why bother?

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Kingdom wrote:
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Fungusamungus wrote:

a lot of web designers will use a spacer.gif. It's a 1x1 transparent gif image, that you can use to fill in space (w/o being visible), and you can resize it any size in the html coding. It's commonly used to fill empty table cells, or force invisible indents.

"Alen Botica" wrote in message

?

Used by designers who dont know any better.

Stylesheets are what you are SUPPOSED to use... spacer images are just... well... silly.

A rather snobby attitude, there is no 'supposed to use' in design work.

:D

It's also rather snobby on the grounds that where as you may have had the benefit of a formal education in web design many are self taught or educated to a high leval in some other disipline and web design is must have quickly requirement.

No formal education in design, nope.

Beats me that you bother to post with a snobby reply rather than make any efforet to address the question. Why bother?

The question had already been answered. I was just adding to it. Anyway... whre's my smack!? Dont I get a smack for being bad?

:p

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Kingdom wrote:
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Fungusamungus wrote:

a lot of web designers will use a spacer.gif. It's a 1x1 transparent gif image, that you can use to fill in space (w/o being visible), and you can resize it any size in the html coding. It's commonly used to fill empty table cells, or force invisible indents.

"Alen Botica" wrote in message

?

Used by designers who dont know any better.

Stylesheets are what you are SUPPOSED to use... spacer images are just... well... silly.

A rather snobby attitude, there is no 'supposed to use' in design work. It's also rather snobby on the grounds that where as you may have had the benefit of a formal education in web design many are self taught or educated to a high leval in some other disipline and web design is must have quickly requirement.

Beats me that you bother to post with a snobby reply rather than make any efforet to address the question. Why bother?

And where exactly is your 'effort to address the question'? Why be bothered?
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V1nc3nt wrote in
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Kingdom wrote:
SpaceGirl wrote in
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Fungusamungus wrote:

a lot of web designers will use a spacer.gif. It's a 1x1 transparent gif image, that you can use to fill in space (w/o being visible), and you can resize it any size in the html coding. It's commonly used to fill empty table cells, or force invisible indents.
"Alen Botica" wrote in message

?

Used by designers who dont know any better.

Stylesheets are what you are SUPPOSED to use... spacer images are just... well... silly.

A rather snobby attitude, there is no 'supposed to use' in design work. It's also rather snobby on the grounds that where as you may have had the benefit of a formal education in web design many are self taught or educated to a high leval in some other disipline and web design is must have quickly requirement.

Beats me that you bother to post with a snobby reply rather than make any efforet to address the question. Why bother?

And where exactly is your 'effort to address the question'? Why be bothered?

Where's yours?

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Kingdom wrote:
V1nc3nt wrote in
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Kingdom wrote:

SpaceGirl wrote in
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Fungusamungus wrote:

a lot of web designers will use a spacer.gif. It's a 1x1 transparent gif image, that you can use to fill in space (w/o being visible), and you can resize it any size in the html coding. It's commonly used to fill empty table cells, or force invisible indents.
"Alen Botica" wrote in message

?

Used by designers who dont know any better.

Stylesheets are what you are SUPPOSED to use... spacer images are just... well... silly.

A rather snobby attitude, there is no 'supposed to use' in design work. It's also rather snobby on the grounds that where as you may have had the benefit of a formal education in web design many are self taught or educated to a high leval in some other disipline and web design is must have quickly requirement.

Beats me that you bother to post with a snobby reply rather than make any efforet to address the question. Why bother?

And where exactly is your 'effort to address the question'? Why be bothered?

Where's yours?

This could be a very long night :)

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Kingdom wrote:
V1nc3nt wrote in
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Kingdom wrote:

SpaceGirl wrote in
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Fungusamungus wrote:

a lot of web designers will use a spacer.gif. It's a 1x1 transparent gif image, that you can use to fill in space (w/o being visible), and you can resize it any size in the html coding. It's commonly used to fill empty table cells, or force invisible indents.
"Alen Botica" wrote in message

?

Used by designers who dont know any better.

Stylesheets are what you are SUPPOSED to use... spacer images are just... well... silly.

A rather snobby attitude, there is no 'supposed to use' in design work. It's also rather snobby on the grounds that where as you may have had the benefit of a formal education in web design many are self taught or educated to a high leval in some other disipline and web design is must have quickly requirement.

Beats me that you bother to post with a snobby reply rather than make any efforet to address the question. Why bother?

And where exactly is your 'effort to address the question'? Why be bothered?

Where's yours?

Ok I'll take an effort:

I Dunno.
(Correct me if I'm wrong)

Now it's your turn....You dunno either, do you?
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"SpaceGirl" wrote in message > Used by
designers who dont know any better.
Stylesheets are what you are SUPPOSED to use... spacer images are just... well... silly.

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x theSpaceGirl (miranda)

Spacers were in use long before stylesheets came into being. Not every web designer is up on every little trick, and sometimes simpler is still the best (it's hard for a web browser of any design to mistranslate a spacer image, but stylesheets? Not everybody has 100% compatibility with them. And to get back to the original question: Obviously Imageready is still using them.
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:15:24 +0100, V1nc3nt found
these unused words floating about:

Kingdom wrote:
V1nc3nt wrote in
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Kingdom wrote:

SpaceGirl wrote in
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Fungusamungus wrote:

a lot of web designers will use a spacer.gif. It's a 1x1 transparent gif image, that you can use to fill in space (w/o being visible), and you can resize it any size in the html coding. It's commonly used to fill empty table cells, or force invisible indents.
"Alen Botica" wrote in message

?

Used by designers who dont know any better.

Stylesheets are what you are SUPPOSED to use... spacer images are just... well... silly.

A rather snobby attitude, there is no 'supposed to use' in design work. It's also rather snobby on the grounds that where as you may have had the benefit of a formal education in web design many are self taught or educated to a high leval in some other disipline and web design is must have quickly requirement.

Beats me that you bother to post with a snobby reply rather than make any efforet to address the question. Why bother?

And where exactly is your 'effort to address the question'? Why be bothered?

Where's yours?

Ok I'll take an effort:

I Dunno.
(Correct me if I'm wrong)

Now it's your turn....You dunno either, do you?

While style sheets may be best for any similar items, quickly tweaking an inage or text for special positioning is easily done with a spacer image. It's also less code than many 'styled' pages I look at!

Being a bit ancient (1994) on the net and decrepit (senior citizen), I'll do my pages the easiest way possible that is acceptable by most browsers.
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J. A. Mc. wrote:
While style sheets may be best for any similar items, quickly tweaking an inage or text for special positioning is easily done with a spacer image. It's also less code than many 'styled' pages I look at!

Being a bit ancient (1994) on the net and decrepit (senior citizen), I'll do my pages the easiest way possible that is acceptable by most browsers.

Now the 'Kingdom' is saved by the bell :)
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ok
i am wondering because i am not interested in programming html i am blocked when i see a structure of any program ... maybe learning just a bit html and doing everything mostly "visually" in webdesign is what i want to know... and of course countinue with my painting... but of course i'd like to work as a webdesigner as well specialze in adobe photoshop related programs and as subhuman suggested to make somthing original like a painting website or something... still i havent figured out should i leave spacer.gif or can i erase it without having consequences for any html document or animation within...
thanx i am so glad i made some people tickle their intelligence on this post (well not much but makes me happy:))
"Fungusamungus" wrote in message
"SpaceGirl" wrote in message > Used by
designers who dont know any better.
Stylesheets are what you are SUPPOSED to use... spacer images are just... well... silly.

--

x theSpaceGirl (miranda)

Spacers were in use long before stylesheets came into being. Not every web designer is up on every little trick, and sometimes simpler is still the best (it's hard for a web browser of any design to mistranslate a spacer image, but stylesheets? Not everybody has 100% compatibility with them. And
to get back to the original question: Obviously Imageready is still using them.

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"Alen Botica" wrote in message
ok
i am wondering because i am not interested in programming html i am
blocked
when i see a structure of any program ... maybe learning just a bit html
and
doing everything mostly "visually" in webdesign is what i want to know... and of course countinue with my painting... but of course i'd like to work as a webdesigner as well specialze in adobe photoshop related programs and as subhuman suggested to make somthing original like a painting website or something... still i havent figured out should i leave spacer.gif or can
i
erase it without having consequences for any html document or animation within...
thanx i am so glad i made some people tickle their intelligence on this
post
(well not much but makes me happy:))

We're starting to verge on OT here, but I'll answer ya:

Because it's coded into the page, I would not delete spacer.gif. Even if you do, browsers will show the 'broken/missing image' link with the border. It will make your page ugly. It's generally an image that's less than 1kb in size, so it's really not a big deal to leave it in.
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