Export images in slices? What?

[Mark321]

Anybody know what this is useful for? Just wondering.

Mark

[gwpriester]

In the days of slower internet connections, sometimes larger images were sliced into smaller images so the image would load faster. Today this is anachronistic.

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi Mark,
Not used a lot these days but quite common when the web was far slower.
SNAP

[handrawn]

Today this is anachronistic.

unless of course you are creating sites for parts of the world where broadband is not the norm; which is possibly a very large area though likely english is not the native language in a lot of it

[hoja]

Fwiw...
slicing used to be dead for a couple of years but has seen a revival in recent years:
In modernized form (overlapping slices allowed, continuous export) for serving media
in web-interfaces see here inside a product which just hit the market.

Xara does actually use somewhat similar principles when creating web content with variants.