> From: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Camino List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 00:56:44 -0500 > To: Camino List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Camino] Problem w/ ASP pages? > > So basically you have to download the file, or a significant portion of > the file to work your magic magic right? > > Suck to be on dialup.
It does, period. Can't get better everywhere, but that's just life on the Internet/Web these days, isn't it? I lived on dial-up for many years, only getting a stronger connection in the past year. If a piece of PHP that's gonna be an image is going to have to load halfway before it can be interpreted, what's the largest it's gonna be? 100 KB? 200 KB? 500 KB? We're not talking about the Library of Congress, here. If you're downloading /huge/ images on a dial-up, NOTHING is gonna make it any better of an experience. Click the link and go get some tea. A 100-KB-large image needing to load a little bit before you see anything isn't going to kill the dial-up user . . . He'd just be looking at nothing or garbage text in the other scenario, anyway. What's better? "The customer is always right." I had this conversation with a co-worker last week. I was trying to explain why x didn't work on y (y being a non-IE browser, x being a MIME type scenario), and he says, "But I just want it to work." It's a subjective statement, but he's in the majority. Add the option to user.js to force strict MIME type interpretation or give a UI option for it that won't interfere with the 90%, I say. Most people just want to see the pictures their friends link them to, but want things like tabbed browsing and good pop-up blocking. H*!#Y%*&!(#%*(&!#%&*(! is not a solution to anything but a developer's perfect world. -/- Mikey-San "Today's tip: When you get a knock from the pizza guy on your door, and you didn't call the pizza guy, be careful. It might be a land shark pretending to be the pizza guy. Land sharks are notorious for their dead-on impressions of pizza guys." _______________________________________________ Camino mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino
