What we will comment on is on the issues that must be considered to use multimedia for best effect. The first set of issues revolves about the faux sense of page design one can get by using inline images. An early example of this was one of the early commercial forays into the Web, a graphic design house which advertised professional layout services for online brochures. However, they got bitten because this design relied on a browser's window being the default width for X Mosaic . With a wider window, the carefully aligned logo in the upper right corner was immediately followed by the image that should have been left justified on the following line.
Current browsers implement some better forms of layout control for images.
Another consideration is unnecessary duplication of effort. Many authors swear by colored bullets and colorful horizontal rules, implementing both effects by using inlined images rather than the structural markup. The time involved in negotiating this connection may actually be larger than the time involved in retrieving the image itself. Another concern is the size of images. With the increasing home popularity of the Internet, more and more users are purchasing dial-up connections of one sort or another.