In article <slrng28tki.1214.g.kreme@cerebus.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> I couldn't possibly care less *why* anyone is on dialup. It's not at > all relevant. > It is relevant to that it is anti social to not provide for them. The situation would be quite different if they were voluntarily on dialup when they could as easily be on fast broadband.
> > > Yeah? Then why aren't you into multi meg graphics, > > I'm not into graphics at all, multi-megabyte or not;
No one has said you were for all values of "into". You were using and serving graphics and talking about it. That was sufficient in the context for my point. > > >> My gallery code shows thumnails which link to scaled images which > >> link to the original image. But the original pops up right away > >> because the scaled image is being scaled by the HTML code from the > >> full size image. > > > You cannot imagine how bad this practice is and you have been told by > > others too and you take not the slightest notice. > > I will not punish the high speed > user by making them do 33% more work just on the off chance that some > dialup user will be looking for large high quality images in my gallery.
How do you arrive at the 33% figure?
> I will not hesitate to put a mutli-megabyte movie file on a site either,
When you temporarily get "into" graphics you mean...
> > >> If I cared about dialup users, I'd make the scaled image an actual > >> smaller image, like I do for the thumbnails. But this would simply > >> make the broadband user take an extra step, in effect punishing them > >> for their fast connection in an effort to make allowances for the > >> dialup user. This is what I mean by not being concerned with the > >> dialup user anymore. > >> > > > Punishing them? Don't you think you are being a trifle melodramatic > > now? > > No more so than you are with your talk about the intrinsic value of the > person, as if that had any relationship to anything at all. > If you showed an understanding of the point, but still argued against it, it would be more impressive. Perhaps you need to do some research on what accessible in website building means.
> > You are not short changing anyone by being decent to all. You need to > > realign your priorities,
