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Subject:Re: Reality? Was: HTML vs PDF From:Katav <katav -at- YAHOO -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 13 Mar 1998 13:15:12 -0800
for 2 cents - plain
Which is why tutorials should be available BOTH
on-line AND downloadable, /preferably/ is a
compressed (self-extracting?) format -- I don't
want to wait (pay) while a uncompressed 4M course
downloads across my 28.8 modem when that same course
could be compressed to half its size (or better).
Maybe it's just me, but when I find a tutorial, I download it, ...
Then ... connect charges become a
non-issue.
At 12:16 PM 3/13/98 +0000, Sarah Carroll wrote:
... until methods for accessing the net change from using telephone
lines to a less expensive method ... to complete a tutorial ... most
... want the paper copy.
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