[wp-hackers] Advantage (or not) of hosting badges

[Computer Guru]

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Does that really happen? JavaScript is different from images - while the JS
may hold down the page until it loads, I was under the impression the
browser would just continue to (attempt) to load the images in the
background until they succeed  - without reflecting on render times.... 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Rider
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 5:40 PM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Advantage (or not) of hosting badges
> 
> Just FYI --
> 
> When putting somebody's badge image on my own site, I will _always_
> copy it to my server. I've seen way too many sites where the whole
> page load has been held up by one stinkin' file from a third-party
> server (googlesyndication.com anyone?), and I don't want to make my
> (two) readers wait for a problem on somebody else's server.
> 
> --
> Stephen Rider
> <http://striderweb.com/>
> 
> On Jul 1, 2007, at 1:48 AM, Gali wrote:
> 
> > Stats, simple control of who is displaying the badge, and control
> over
> > the picture if necessary
> >
> > 2007/7/1, Marci O'Daffer <marci at odaffer.net>:
> >> I have a site that wants to have some level of privacy protection
> >> in terms
> >> of who they give permission to use their badges
> 
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