OT: Poor Web Design

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 06:17:39PM -0500, D . Thomas Podnar wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:13:22PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > All web ``designers'' should be required to work with dialup modems!
> 
> I heartily disagree, Bill.
> 
> I think all web ``designers'' should target their web site to the likely
> capabilities of their desired market.

It is the nature of the web that you cannot know for certain whom your
market *is*.

> If their target market is people likely to access the internet via
> dialup modems, then sure, you've got it right.
> 
> We used to develop our web site in vi, with no tables or frames, such
> that Mosaic users could read it. Our target market was users likely
> to have Mosaic as their primary browser, i.e. old SCO systems.

:-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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