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From: "Daniel P.B.Smith" <dpbsmith(a)verizon.net>
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:24 pm
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Thumbnails, varying connection speeds
This is a good point. It's astonishing how quickly
one forgets.
I can't forget. I go home to a dialup at the end of every semester.:-(
[snip good story]
A few weeks ago we helped a friend install the
critical security
patches--just the CRITICAL security patches--for her Windows XP
laptop
over a dialup connection. Jeez, what _could_ Microsoft be thinking
of?
They probably think everyone is on a T1.
They do.
[moresnip]
I'm not sure that thumbnails are the ideal answer,
though, because
they're very annoying for those who _do_ have high-speed
connections. I
wonder whether it would be unreasonable to request that Wikipedia
support two (or three?) flavors of delivery, chosen in
Preferences--high graphics, thumbnail graphics, and perhaps no
graphics?
Thumbnails as default, no graphics for really low bandwidth (and perhaps those w/ screen
readers and other adaptive technology?), and high bandwidth for those with T1s and such?