[8811] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Let's talk strategy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve H Rose)
Tue Aug 1 18:20:50 1995
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 18:18:03 +0059 (EDT)
From: Steve H Rose <habib@world.std.com>
To: www-talk@www10.w3.org
In-Reply-To: <132FC535B61@ris.risinc.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Mon, 31 Jul 1995, Steve Maybo wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Jul 1995, Mike Meyer wrote:
> >
> > NetScapes broken attribute parsing. The response from the
> > magazine was that 25% (their estimate) of their market wasn't
> > worth spending a few minutes fixing the problem, or even doing it
> > right next time.
>
> But the Internet can greatly increase your market.....20-30 or so
> million with Web access !! Do you want to make pages look bad for
> 25% of the people (5-7 million) who may be interested in what you do
> and have no other contact with you than through your Web page ??
>
I think the answer is it depends upon what your purpose is. If you are
focusing on a "techie" market, then you may not care. If you are
focusing on a market which includes lots of non-techies (e.g. business
people), then you do care.
I sometimes wish people would do some thinking about why they are
developing a homepage before starting to write their code...
Yours,
Steve Habib Rose
Clear Nets
The HTML CyberClass
HomePage Associates
