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From: Woody on 21 Apr 2010 04:03 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > However, since the two hour cut-off on unmetered connections was > commonplace, it was also the norm not to need download anything bigger > than that. Oh yes, silly of me to not remember how nothing of any use could be bigger than the two hour cutoff! -- Woody
From: James Jolley on 21 Apr 2010 07:40 On 2010-04-21 07:36:42 +0100, real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) said: >> >> It was not madness. It was a pain browsing the web if there were big >> pages, > > Which is why one could turn off graphics, Flash wasn't around, and if > you complained that a Web page took *ages* to download, the maintainer > would probably do something about it (if they'd had others and cared, > that is). I hate to bang the accessibility drum again but this made me think. I would turn off graphics for faster downloads even here on 8 MB, but VoiceOver does have some interesting problems then with some sites. Sites that use image map links don't report themselves properly to VO, it's as if VO needs to scan the .jpg or whatever format files are used. Is this a possibility? I was always under the impression that VO used the HTML elements for graphical descriptions - alt text and such. Anyway, just an observation really.
From: Roger Merriman on 21 Apr 2010 17:45 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > > Everything I read about Twitter makes it sound like a magnificent > > contribution to civilisation's achievements. > > Oh yes. Deffo. > > But sometimes I do wonder what happens on there. Not enough to try it, > mind you. But then Facebook makes me feel queasy too. chose your friends wisely, facebook is quite horrid. luckly only a few friends are exlusivly on that. roger -- www.rogermerriman.com
From: Bella Jones on 21 Apr 2010 18:09 Roger Merriman <NEWS(a)sarlet.com> wrote: > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Everything I read about Twitter makes it sound like a magnificent > > > contribution to civilisation's achievements. > > > > Oh yes. Deffo. > > > > But sometimes I do wonder what happens on there. Not enough to try it, > > mind you. But then Facebook makes me feel queasy too. > > chose your friends wisely, facebook is quite horrid. luckly only a few > friends are exlusivly on that. Has someone been having a go at you on fbook? I find v little horridness, because the person or their comment(s) would just be deleted immediately. Irritations, yes. -- bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
From: Roger Merriman on 21 Apr 2010 18:16
Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Roger Merriman <NEWS(a)sarlet.com> wrote: > > > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > Everything I read about Twitter makes it sound like a magnificent > > > > contribution to civilisation's achievements. > > > > > > Oh yes. Deffo. > > > > > > But sometimes I do wonder what happens on there. Not enough to try it, > > > mind you. But then Facebook makes me feel queasy too. > > > > chose your friends wisely, facebook is quite horrid. luckly only a few > > friends are exlusivly on that. > > Has someone been having a go at you on fbook? I find v little > horridness, because the person or their comment(s) would just be deleted > immediately. Irritations, yes. no far from it, but I do find it hard work, twitter is more like irc and is much simpler I don't get 5 million do i want to be some ones mobsters/vampiere such crud upon logging in. in blunt I don't like facebook/myspace etc way of working twitter is simple and clean so thats fine though even then I don't do follow fridays etc as it not my thing. ie I activly don't want 5 million "friends" I just want to chat to my friends. and facebook makes it harder to do so. roger -- www.rogermerriman.com |