On Wed, 14 May 2003, the bishop wrote: > But, i mostly work with ancient (slow) machinery, and i would like an > _option_ > to turn off the clutter instead. Even in the 21st century, several people > don't need or can't stand all that eye-candy, or want to use freenet with > text-only browsers, or with very limited bandwith...
The fproxy information pages actually look quite nice in Lynx and Links, and one could argue that using a text only browser (or an image-disabled graphical browser) *is* your option to turn off the clutter. Bandwidth is not an issue if you're accessing a node on your local machine, and if it's remote then the browser cache should take care of it. It's understandable if someone "can't stand" the graphics, but "don't need" can always be argued. Calling it "eye-candy" is Name-calling. I personally feel that the extra graphics on the fproxy-generated pages convey information in and of themselves. The way I use and interact with freenet would be different if the graphics weren't there. Especially on the Splitfile Download page. (The Splitfile Download page scheme is a work of art, IMO. A sputtering little progress meter just wouldn't cut it for these purposes.) Not that I disagree with your conclusion. Just that I disagree with your premises. -todd _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
