I think I should be able to use any web site with lynx on a vt100.
Far too many web sites are a waste of my time these days. Also, even
with a fast connection, trying to view a lot of web pages with a 450
mhz G4 was problematic. The Java and animated gifs were enough to eat
up 100% of the cpu on myspace (yuck). But I just got a new iMac so at
least that's an improvement.


On Oct 17, 2007, at 2:23 PM, Mircea Pauca wrote:

> Greetings from Romania !
>
> Given the very slow Net connections here, I'd
> like to have some materials to show / URL's to
> point to current Web designers seeming too in
> love with flashy, wasteful modern technology and
> towards brief, to the point, economic page design.
> Any relation to AS-vs-NT distinctions here ?
>
> What I hate: unknown e-critters that launch
> uncontrollable code; ActiveX; Flash (except when
> really useful; I liked the extreme compression vs
> quality of .FLV video streams in YouTube); JavaScript
> for minor menus etc. easily doable in basic HTML;
> dynamic URL's; distracting side animations; frames (now
> I'm a little tolerant); "injected" links to ads, toolbars;
> Java self-installers, QuickTime (an incompatible
> version of course) to play music etc. Heavy processing
> on their side: PHP, SQL-based "calculated" pages etc.
> I've seen horribly slow e-commerce sites that
> could have been much more convenient with just a
> fixed HTML structure (and maybe a hidden way to
> update them automatically).
>
> All while useful _content_ is hard to find.
> Any one more in the know can point to more
> such current and near-future annoyances/threats
> and ways to understand and protect from ?
> What of these are designed to spy, pump ads
> or other $$$-related causes, what to cater to real
> or misunderstood NT "coolness", and what is just
> plain stupidity, wasteful tools and overhead waste ?
>
> [On the contrary, I've also seen the objection that
> slow-Net users are also unlikely to buy other linked
> products so they don't matter ?!?]
>
> And then their servers get overloaded, and blame
> us users instead of streamlining their serving ability !
>
> Also: I'd think imperatively appropriate that every
> Web designer tests his brand new creation with a
> "slow Net emulator" ! To represent not only less
> KB/s but also a long, unpredictable ping time.
> If ping is X ms and main page has also N other
> linked files (images, frames, CSS...) then the load
> time is prolonged by N*X, or a multiple of that ?
> don't know the exact protocol - one file needs how
> many "pings" ?
>
> Thank you for thinking about this,
> Mircea Pauca, Bucuresti, Romania
>
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