[11286] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Watson)
Mon Mar 28 10:46:46 1994
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1994 15:39:33 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: davew@wimsey.com (Dave Watson)
>At 11:42 AM 3/23/94 -0500, Walt Howe, DELPHI Internet SIG Manager wrote:
>>What I find missing from the discussions of the attractiveness of Mosaic as an
>>interface via dialups to shell accounts or SLIPs is the unattractiveness of
>>14.4K access. Once you get past the stage of marveling at the graphics, the
>>2 to 5 minute wait between graphic pages, gets old very fast. Mosaic will be
>>nothing more than a curiosity to most people who are restricted to current
>>dialup speeds. The bandwidth of the last leg to the home or office remains
>>critical.
>
I work in Mosaic, and the key to the 14.4k problem is a little magazine
trick called design. Use small pictures and thumbnails of larger, and warn
people of the size of larger pictures and files, which are either JPEGed or
at least seperately linked (i.e. click HERE to get that 400k gif of the
waterfall). Since you are designing sites to be visited and enjoyed, why
let the lack of an extra link tick off the largest growing segment of the
market.
Some of the sites designed by the group of people I work with are in my sig.
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I am: Dave Watson DaveW@wimsey.bc.ca Voice Pager: (604) 252-1474
I do: online research, database design, Mosaic webweaving and magazine
feature writing, along with other forms of Information Engineering.
Also a rock critic (semi-retired). Disclaimer: I *AM* my employer.
A founding member of the Digital Co-op.
Visit the Digital Co-op's Mosaic/WorldWideWeb site at Wimsey:
the extremely cool magazine NWHQ URL http://www.wimsey.bc.ca/~jmax/index.html
and the Digital Co-op Home page URL http://www.wimsey.bc.ca/~jmax/DCO.html
"'Motiveless Murder,' the papers screamed, - Morning Final,
The cops all said the crowd was iced by the sight" Blue Oyster Cult
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