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Posted by dorayme on 05/27/05 02:14
> dorayme wrote:
>> You on broadband? Perhaps this makes *all* the difference for this site. I
>> know ebay can be frustrating on dial up, but it is a site that is barely
>> tolerable, TP I find almost impossible on any browser I have on Mac... it
>> was ever so for years...
>
> Should a website cater to the weakest of the surfers?
How long is a piece of string?
A site aimed at the general public in a country where broadband is not so
well taken up (last percentage I heard was in the 30s, but it may be a bit
more now?) that is a famous institution for selling new, but more second
hand goods of every possible type, should cater well, if it can, to the dial
up community in its online form.
I can't help feeling that the recent exchanges on unrelated matters has made
you so defensive, Travis. And if not defensive, then over anxious to push a
particular barrow. Like you feel that everyone is too picky about websites,
you are more relaxed...
I mentioned the TP because I wanted to see what others thought. You think it
fine on broadband. I wanted to know this for starters (and have had to
deduce it from your responses. It's OK, you can confess that you are on
broadband to me. Don't worry. Some of my best friends are.).
I was also wanting to know if folks think it could be much faster on dial up
given the considerable complexity of its brief. Or whether somehow, it would
have been very difficult to do so. I suspect that the designers are not
first class and do not have the knowledge that I see displayed often here.
dorayme
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