OT: Poor Web Design

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006, Fairlight wrote:
>So, due to a freak of nature, I'm actually away from home.  I have with my
>my dinky Digital HiNote VP laptop with 14.4 modem.  This model was so early
>that even though it's a P100 with 32MB, it has no UARTS capable of letting
>any of the higher speed modems work.  The Xoom 14.4 is the highest I ever
>got to work, and not for lack of trying.
>
...
>My main reason for posting this is to remind business people to make sure
>their sites are clean and concise if at all possible.  If I had a choice,
>I'd drop BellSouth after that fiasco.  Alas, I don't.

All web ``designers'' should be required to work with dialup modems!

I heard an interview with Bill Joy of Sun who asked the interviewer if it
would make sense to have an ``800'' number that only worked with Microsoft
phones.

Bill
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