Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>
> I don't understand why so many
> people who want to advertise their products on the internet don't hire
> website developers to produce just normal webpages that will work with any
> browser.
>
> <snip>
>
> I simply cannot understand why any commercial website developer
> would want to exclude any customers from his site unless there were some
> money in it for him to promote special browsers and to disparage others
> as being "out of date" or "bad" under some contrived standards issue and
> other false concepts and pretexts.
Hi Sam;
I have recently had some real-life experiences that could help explain how
the above happens:
1) People that promote and directly sell their products on the internet
simply don't have enough knowledge to specify EXACTLY what they want to
their website developer.
Don't believe me ? ING Direct just re-did their website. The result was a
very simple and plain page with only about four links on it and three or
four SIMPLE graphics. It took two and 1/2 mins to load on my 33 MHz'486
running Netscape 2.02. It was almost 100% javascript.
In contrast, www.yahoo.com loaded in 17 sec, had at LEAST 5 graphics and
about a THOUSAND links. (Well, maybe a hundred <G>)
2) The website developers think it's "cool" to be using the lasted gizmo
and think it makes them look more talented to their clients. You wouldn't
BELIEVE some of the arguments you get from these developers when you seem
to criticize their talents.
3) The sales department doesn't know what bandwidth is or what delays the
customer might have to put up with when connected at 33.6 on a busy web.
These guys want their site to look flashy to THEM. They view it right off
the HD and they say, "That's GREAT !! SHIP it !"
- Clarence Verge
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