Re: [OT] ideal file size of a jpeg or gif image

[quentisl@leaves.ihug.com.au (OgO)]

In aus.rail, on 06 Nov 2000, James Brook announced:

>OgO wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe, but linux is getting more popular all the time.  I can't
>> recall what I said this in reply to, but I was more thinking of
>> requiring the latest version of IE or netscape with all the latest
>> plugins... 99.99% of the time that would not be needed if sites were
>> written better. 
>
>Linux is still too hard for the average person to use. Unless it gets
>the "plug and play" flexibility of Windoze 95/98, it will remain an
>operating system for computer enthusiasts. At the moment a Windoze PC
>is the dominant platform for the average user.
>

Although if you ask even the average user what they think of (microsoft's 
implementation of) plug and play.... Actually I would say the average non-
technical computer user doesn't even worry/think much about plug and play, 
what they want is a system which they can do their word-processing, spread 
sheet, whatever on, which does the job reliably, easily and for them as 
much as possible.  If you set up a linux box with a decent word processor 
and spread sheet and whatever with a pretty X-Windows login and desktop, 
half of the 'average' computer users wouldn't know or care what OS they're 
using.  The difficult part is getting it all set up and working, which, at 
the moment, is Linux's biggest hurdle, although some of the new versions 
of things like Red Hat are supposed to be almost as easy to install in 
this way as m$ windows (I haven't tried though).

>As for my site, I have coded it in HTML without using any of those
>crappy WYSIWYG editors. I have also refrained from using scripting as
>it is unnecessary and only adds to the download times. It should be
>compatible with any frames capable browser. If you don't have frames, I
>have also made it possible to navigate it from the main page. I have
>even tested it successfully with Lynx on a Unix machine. :-)
>  
>  

That's the best way to do it, and well done for testing it with lynx.

Regards

OgO.
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