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Subject:RE: Bad Page Design (was: Cursors! Foiled again) From:bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:45:36 -0600
I know several people who are forced to connect at 28.8 (or even less)
because there are no decent ISP's in their "neck of the woods." And don't
forget the issue of network congestion along the way. I looked at the site
on through a broadband connection, but it still took over a minute to load.
The generally accepted standard is just a few seconds (15, isn't it?) for a
page to load. Otherwise people will lose interest and leave the site.
Therefore, anything that makes a page too slow to load is a bad page design.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Becca Price [SMTP:becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:04 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Cc: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Bad Page Design (was: Cursors! Foiled again)
>
>
> --- Michele Davis <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com> wrote:
> is anyone still using a 28.8 anymore?
> > i'd shoot myself if
> > i had a modem that slow. better yet i wouldn't use the
> > internet.
>
> hey, for some of us, 28.8 is the best we can do. I live in the
> boonies, and no matter how fast my modem, our best rate is 28.8.
> and we don't have DSL or cable available to us. We only got
> touch-tone dialing about 10 years ago...
>
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