César Aracena wrote:
> I think that the best way you can achieve this, considering all the
> troubles and different configurations you will have to make for each
> user, is to make them choose the type of connection they want, and set a
> cookie in the visitor's browser with a one year life time which stores
> that machine/visitor's connection.

And then you STILL have to allow users a way to come back and 'unset' 
their preference later, to deal with folks who have laptops and connect 
with high speed access at one location and then low speed access at another.

Others' comments about letting the user choose are wise too... just 
because I'm on a fat pipe doesn't mean I want to let you use it ;-)

There are folks who have a limited amount of bandwidth allocated per 
month and are careful about not exceeding it (yes that limitation would 
drive me nutes too, but that's beside the point).

Most people in the world are still on "slow" pipes.  I'd either default 
to sending them to the low version & let them switch if they want or 
dump the whole idea and just make one version that is a balance.

Or not... Amazon.com offers (or did at least) a text-version.... but I'd 
much rather surf their "regular" site with images turned and then just 
turn images on (by pressing 'g' in Opera thankyouverymuch :-) than have 
to go through their 'low bandwidth' version.


I think this is one of those ideas that makes a lot of sense in the 
abstract until you have to deal with all the other variables of life.

TjL



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