Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Awesome Web Site OT (don't work)
From: John Straus <Mail@SlideOne.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:25:12 -0500

on 7/30/02 2:35 AM, Nathan Wajsman at wajsman@webshuttle.ch wrote:

> One of my pet peeves about sites. I have no idea why people who are just
> displaying photos want to lard up their sites with flash, Java scripts and God
> knows what else. I can understand using stuff like that when there is a reason
> for it, like with home banking and other transactional sites. But for simple
> display of photographs, just stick to some pictures and text, please!
> 
> Nathan
> 
> kyle cassidy wrote:
> 
>> fwiw, the site won't load on my opera 5.1 browser (it just starts playing
>> music through my speakers which i HATE). just a word of warning for those of
>> you designing web pages -- if your viewers can't view it, it's worse than
>> not having a web page at all.

The real question on a flash site is...can you d/l the photos? I always
thought thatıs why many photog's started using it...because you couldn't.

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John Straus
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