I have to agree with Bill, here. He makes a lot of sense. If the idea is to share information, then web sites must be designed to deal with the lowest common denominator of users, new technology notwithstanding. Every book I've read on web site design - admittedly I've read only a few - makes this same point. If you know that your viewers are able to use all the newest bells and whistles, and those bells and whistles add something to the content, then by all means, use 'em.
But in the wide open spaces of the untamed internet, we have people trying to access information from all parts of the world, using a wide variety of equipment, and with varying skills when it comes to using the computer. It's helpful to them to produce web sites and pages that can be accessed and read easily, without need for upgrading programs - and sometimes machines - and all that entails. We should be making it easy for everyone to access the information we have to share. William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: dave o'brien > Subject: Re: OT: What Do You See? > > > Should I only provide pictures on my website as .gifs because > Netscape 1.x > > doesn't support anything .jpgs? > > If you are writing an image gallery, and you know that a > significant proportion of your viewers are using Netscape1.x, > then you damned well should be using gif images, at least as a > mirror to the jpgs. > I think that as web page writers we need to be aware that our > viewership may be several generations behind in their level of > available technology. I tend to be slow to embrace anything that > is supposed to be new and better until it is middle aged and > proven. > In our example with CSS, there are significant problems with > implementation, no matter what browser you choose. > The browsrs you quote may well work with the standards of the > moment, but the standards themselves keep getting changed. > Now, are we going to force our viewers, who may be on slow > internet connections with older hardware to download a bunch of > new software and keep trying to make our pages work? > There are too many intercompatability issues with computers. The > newest software might cure the common cold, but it might not run > on the OS in use. > Do you really think that a person will bother to try? I suspect > they will just go elsewhere for their web based information. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/darkroom-rentals/index.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
