Fred Bauder (fredbaud(a)ctelco.net) [050523 06:07]:
This is the typical type of problem you run into with
folks using old
equipment and obsolete software. Like, for example, folks in Mexico who use
castoff US equipment. Given our geek editor base, most of whom have
reasonably good equipment, it is hard to put ourselves in the position of
those who are are trying to access the internet under less than optimal
conditions, but is is good if we could to the extent we are able and
accomodate them to the extent we can.
I was recently on dialup (waiting for BT to switch on my new DSL) and using
my lovely but aging Thinkpad 560X - Pentium MMX 233MHz, 96MB RAM. Firefox
is horribly slow with 96MB RAM ;-) I managed to work on Wikipedia and even
do arbitration (a real test of the usability of a tabbed browser) - so
we're doing okay for equipment of that level. It'd be interesting to try it
in Netscape 3 on a 486 with 12MB RAM like I had up to 2001 ;-)
- d.