Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Yes, and used sensibly Shockwave is cool/useful/whatever, at least thats my opinion.
I have yet to see a site where using shockwave/flash (is there a difference?) has improved navigation, or has been used beneficially with something that wouldn't have been possible without. I have however seen many sites which are completely unusable because of it.
Shockwave is an eye-candy tool, packaged in a convenient format that is relatively bandwidth light. Based on that it isn't meant to be useful in a clinical kind of way...
Same with the likes of nVidia video drivers, without which Linux gaming would not be near as well supported by game developers...
I can see a point in nvidia video drivers, simply because of a lack of better alternatives. I see no point in wasting my time on other nvidia hardware, e.g. their network stuff, to which anyone can buy equivalents by the truckload for $15 including full source code.
I bet you wouldn't turn down an Athlon64 running on an nforce3 mobo! ;-)
No, just too many things to do. And I don't like turning all that stuff on in my browser, look where it gets the M$ies into... ;)
Thats a good point. It doesn't worry us too much though... :-)
The thing is that some people like to see whizzy graphics and hear groovy sounds when they browse the net. I do, but because I choose
No problem with that, but generally I am looking for information and don't want to be entertained, and the trouble is that most websites are *only* designed to entertain
Thats fair enough. Its different strokes for different folks at the end of the day, and the few websites that actually >are< informative do not
tend to emphasize eye-candy...
Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
