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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: December 22, 2002 Dial-Up Revelations -- "Lately I've grown lazy around the issue of page size and images. When designing something for a client or posting a picture to my own web site, I'd often think to myself, "everyone I know has a high-speed connection now-a-days" and with little more than a cursory glance at the file size, I'd post or design in happy, dial-upless oblivion. Oh what a spoiled fool I'd become." (Comments: Via Elegant Hack.)
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A possibly related issue... I always surf with WebWasher -- software that kills most pop-ups and advertisements. I recently installed similar software that kills Flash. When I recommend links to my students or on my weblog, I have only previewed those pages in their filtered, relatively crap-free states. Sometimes when I watch students trying to navigate through the links I've suggested, I'm amazed to see how *awful* the sites look. No wonder some students are annoyed that I assign them online reading! Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz on December 23, 2002 03:03 AM
I was surprised to hear no mention of the Opera browser; its image-toggle feature is a great help -- even when using DSL. Posted by: Frank on December 23, 2002 11:42 AM
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