Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kit, I have not even tried to visit Marko's site--if people who are on broadband complain about slow loading, then I am not going to bother with my ISDN connection. More importantly, I saw that he replied to someone who complained about viewing difficulties that he or she should install IE6. I think it is extremely presumtiuous of someone to suggest that people should change to a browser they do not like just to look at his pictures. Likewise, I will accept cookies and the need for annoying plugins from sites that provide me with a service I need (such as home banking) but I absolutely refuse to accept any of those things to look at a photo site. In all modesty, take a look at my site: no flash, no Javascript as far as I can tell, just text and pictures. I want to make it easy for people to look at my pictures, because I want lots of viewers and lots of feedback. You can view my site regardless of which browser you have, even if it is something ancient like Netscape 4.5; and even if you connect via modem, the download times will remain tolerable. I have noticed that all the good e-commerce sites also behave this way--because they want to make it EASY for people to buy from them. That should be an equally useful principle for all us budding artists here. Nathan Kit McChesney | acmefoto wrote: > Poor Marko. He's got a great site. Why can't anyone see it? I can! Thank > you, Marko! Your work is great! > > Folks, if you'd just download a Flash player, you could view Marko's site. > Everyone uses Flash these days. It won't bite you, won't hurt your machine, > won't expose you to a virus, or anything. It will, however, allow you to > view some absolutely marvelous online content, and allow you to see a really > top-notch Web site (Marko's) with some great photographs. You can also > enable your browser to view with frames, too. > > Maybe it's a bandwith problem. The images are large, but still ... > > Accepting cookies, viewing with frames, and using Flash to see a Web site is > de rigeur these days, and is not going to mark you as a Communist, a > Liberal, or even as an Anarchist. Refusing to do these things will, I > venture to say, mark you as retrograde, in the world of the Internet (not to > mention keeping you from having a blast online! ;-) > > Kit > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2003.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html