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NONE: Re: Graphics and the Web
Re: Graphics and the Web
Diane Haugen (hsolum_at_barnesville.polaristel.net)
Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:47:01 +0000
On August 28th, S. Finer wrote:
>Most people do use graphics....but many people find waiting for the
>download to be a pain in the ass. I become VERY annoyed waiting for a 55k
>graphic that does NOTHING for my understanding......like a large logo,
>contentless, on every page. This is an abuse. I prefer well organized
>text dominate sites, with many 15-20k or less pages. Graphics must be
>substantive......a chart for example, or table, or graph, or helpful
>photo. If they are not, then I lose patience.
>
>I estimate that the number of folks who feel as I do actually do number
>about a third of participants.....and I refer to them as
>Text-Patient.....These people spend as much or more time using lists,
>email, or newsgroups as they do the web. Too many html jockeys ignore
>this group.......at their own peril. Because the text-patient folks have
>been using the Net longer and have more confidence in it, and use it more
>for business. THEY ALSO BUY MORE FREQUENTLY using the net than do other
>users......
I couldn't agree with him more.
I don't go to the major newspaper sites because I refuse to wait for a
gazillion useless graphics to download when all I want are the headlines
and a clickable choice to get the details.
The New York Times has a story summary page, but you can't get to it until
you wait for all the cover pages to laboriously, time-consumingly download,
at least the last time I checked it, which was -- ahem -- some time ago.
Diane Haugen
Editor
Document Design
http://www.rrv.net/wcdd/dd/index.html
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