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Fellows,
I'm not sure if this will make sense, or is it just me missing the good old days of "computing".
I think animated websites should be banned, or at least restricted to a .gfx
That goes as well for complicated graphics and photoshopped websites.
Why not have all the webpages in ascii, colored ascii images, maybe a little of kpaint work, no backgrounds, no useless HTML code generated by macromedia and Co.
That will look nice and simple, and it would also help the WBC (worldwide bandwith consumption). ok i made that up, but you got my idea.
any positive comments on the matter would be highly apreciated.
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hell yeah, modern websites takes forever to load on my 44k

i dont mind a few gif, png or jpg. there can be already much done with very small bg images tiled on table cells. I beleave a good side can be transmitting via 100kb (compressed) ^- ^. A ascii generated page would probably fail to be displayed correctly as soon as the displying font will switch (remember that diffrent OS may display fonts diffrently).

I would rather appreciate, if web developers would say good by to their graphical html editors and stick to simply syntax highliting editors wilth some prewritten scripts to insert into the page and stop using IE to validate their page primaly. Even www.google.com is far away from beeing standard compliant (source: www.google.com/search?q=seamonkey ). Okay, google doesnt look very diffrent on diffrent browsers and the fault for that isn't the lack off standard compliants of the google page, but rather of the browsers, but thats another case ^-^.

maybe we extent the HTTP protocol with a new header in which a browser can request an optimal page size which can be used to automatically determine a template for the user .

dial up connection is now for the oldies,
so all will upgrade to adsl or so!
also here in greece, where such a connection
is not as cheap as other EU countries, more
ppl join day by day.

OKAY! so I do make sense!
though what I meant was 99% esthetic

topolab wrote:dial up connection is now for the oldies,
so all will upgrade to adsl or so!
also here in greece, where such a connection
is not as cheap as other EU countries, more
ppl join day by day.

some people actually have to work for their money, and have other priorities to spend it on than the faster internet.

As far as the animated websites - f**'em. If you don't like them, you can always leave them, and the owners/makers loose a visitor. If you do like them, stay and be happy.

I like flash, because it opens a whole new door of posibilities... I don't like it, because 99% it's been used improperly, and unneccessary.
But what I absolutely hate - unsolicited sound in webpages. Not only do I think they should be banned, I think their owners/makers should be stoned to death.

Use Lynx. =)

Hmz my internet connection in home is dial-up DSL :-) and i got nothing to worry about sites with images becouse in my country a lot of ISPs don't counting bandwith :-)

well, by now I doubt many isp-s actually limit the bandwidth on dial/up connections.

I can say that in small country small limits :-)

mm_freak wrote:Use Lynx. =)

yeah.. i think you should use lynx if you dont want that gfx stuff..

I'm currently experimenting with emacs-w3. Looks neat and as I'm using emacs anyway, this comes in handy. =)

Well I also still use a 56k dialup... And I also don't like the sites with a lot of images... Im a little bit of a web designer and I mainly do text sites which can also look very nice with some asskickin' CSS stylesheet...

In Firefox you can disable off-site images, which helps a lot. At least you ban out most ad images.

Edit -> Preferences -> Web features
(x) Load images
(x) for the originating web site only

Or you can get the addblock Extension. It works well. I have the same problem. I have a cable modem and the whole 64kbits/sec .