On Sep 19, 2007, at 13:17, Mark Roberts wrote:
I feel your pain. I continue to assign an F to any of my students
who
makes a web site that uses Flash without providing standard, non-Flash
alternative functionality. Shall I send you a copy nect time it
happens? ;-)
I used to strive for
Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bandwidth is dirt cheap for commercial sites, and even cheaper for
non-rural consumers. I can get multi-meg Ethernet for less than a
T1 cost 4-5 years ago.
So why load sites down so much that it feels like I'm still on
dialup, eh? ;-) (More importantly:
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Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bandwidth is dirt cheap for commercial sites, and even cheaper for
non-rural consumers. I can get multi-meg Ethernet for less than a
T1 cost 4-5 years ago.
So why load sites down so much that it feels like I'm still on
dialup,
I agree with all people who dislike the website navigation
done with Flash. I believe, that it is just one of those waves.
Earlier, we've seen animated gifs all over the websites
with things jumping at you; background music playing as long as your
browser is open with a particular page,
Adam,
For what it's worth, - see this opinion:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=222044cid=17992648
Let me quote from there just one point relevant to the text browsers:
(the author of that comment also discusses the screen size issue)
''For example, if you are operating a Web site in the
I admit that I do not bother worrying about Lynx compatability any longer. I
have not met anyone who even knew what it is in years.
For those reading this who do not, it is a text based web browser.
Charles Robinson wrote:
On Sep 19, 2007, at 13:17, Mark Roberts wrote:
I feel your pain. I
rant
I mean what the F***. What is it about current web design and Flash! All
this talk about Leicas gave me the idea that I might like to know more
about current Leica offerings so I decided to visit the Leica web site.
It's bad enough when there's a Flash into taking up bandwidth on a
On 19/09/07, P. J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed:
/rant
Luddite.
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Bandwidth is cheap, and flash is better than HTML for presentation control.
-Adam
P. J. Alling wrote:
rant
I mean what the F***. What is it about current web design and Flash! All
this talk about Leicas gave me the idea that I might like to know more
about current Leica offerings so I
On a freeking commercial website? If someone wants to steal photos of
Leica Products with their name blazoned across them I'd let them. It's
free advertising. Bandwidth isn't that cheap and Flash is a decided
security risk.
Adam Maas wrote:
Bandwidth is cheap, and flash is better than HTML
Bandwidth is dirt cheap for commercial sites, and even cheaper for non-rural
consumers. I can get multi-meg Ethernet for less than a T1 cost 4-5 years ago.
It's not about stealing photo's, it's about ensuring that your site looks the
way you designed it. The easiest way to make sure your site
P. J. Alling wrote:
rant
I mean what the F***. What is it about current web design and Flash!
The ignorant veeps who *decide* what goes on the corporate web site
like Flash because it's, well, flashy. It impresses people who have no
knowledge of more important things like usability. Web
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