And, seriously,
are we still living at a time when connection speed should be
considered a deciding design factor? Yes, some people still
work off of slow connections, but the vast majority of us who
work in a professional environment most definitely do not.
I work in a professional environment in a country (the UK) where the
cost of a 2Mb leased line could buy you a new laptop every month (a
significant amount of money for a small company), and yes, I regularly
use servers on the other side of the world where the round trip time
etc. would make a query-per-click interface unusable.
Not to mention the large community of users within countries with slim
bandwidth such as Chile, Brazil and Turkey.
Also lets not forget Transatlantic lines, or countries where bandwidth
is great "Within" the country but the country uses sattelite to get to
the rest of the world.
Joshua D. Drake
P.S. My uncle lives in the U.k. it is damn spendy.
Regards, Dave.
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