In message <doraymeRidThis-A7CA7F.10592106052008@news-vip.optusnet.com.au> dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > In article <slrng1ufgr.15qa.g.kreme@cerebus.local>, > Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> In message <doraymeRidThis-0B1751.13012903052008@news-vip.optusnet.com.au> >> dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote: >> > what would dialup users or slow broadband think?). >> >> Sorry, but I stopped worrying about dialup users 6 years ago when the last >> person in my family finally got ADSL. I hear there are still people on >> dialup, but I could not prove it.
> Why did you ever worry about dialup? Do you make websites only for your > family?
Back in 1995 worrying about dialup was sensible as the vast majority of your visitors were using dialup. Now-a-days, nearly none are.
>> > The advantage is bandwidth and clarity, especially bandwidth. No one >> > wants to download a 2592 px wide pic if they are only interested in >> > seeing it at 400px. >> >> But they take the same amount of time (that is, 'none') to download! :)
> This is not true for many people (not you or your family who maybe have > superfast), even on what is broadly known as broadband. And it is > demonstrably false when you take into account a set of pictures.
Did you see the smilie? Did you?
-- "Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?" Wen considered this for some time, and a last said: "A fish!"
