- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 09:28:07 -0600
- To: Andrew Diamond <adiamond1978@gmail.com>
- Cc: site-comments@w3.org
On 9 Nov 2010, at 8:48 AM, Andrew Diamond wrote: > I don't know if this has ever come up at any of the W3C conversations, > but much of the rural world is still on dial-up or slower internet > speeds, while the rest of the world advances at a much greater pace > including java script, large detailed images, and other internet > technologies. Has the W3C ever considered, perhaps, a <speed> tag > identifier to distinguish between low/high speed connections? Hi Andrew, SMIL has this feature. You might want to look into: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-SMIL3-20081201/smil-content.html#adef-systemBitrate _ Ian > Considering most large urban areas take this for granted, they neglect > to remember the vast amount of users that still are forced to use a > slow connection; a tag such as this, perhaps set by the browser, or in > the phone/computers browsers settings, would select the correct > version of a page to load based on this <speed> tag (or similar, just > a suggestion). > > I've never written you guys, before because I never had a suggestion, > but being a rural resident, I was sort of "forced" into this idea as a > result of extremely slow, dial-up, internet connection speeds. > > Thank you, > > Andrew Diamond > > > > > -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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