Re: Bandwidth as a constraint

At 05:27 PM 8/30/2001 , Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>Bandwidth is a problem for people. There are bandwidth-intesive ways to send
>content (the overblown PDF that some tools generate is an example) that are
>unnecessary, and that cause problems for people who live in areas where
>infrastructure is poor.

It's a shame that there's not some way built into all commonly
available browsers to deny the downloading of images, if you're
on a low bandwidth connection.

Oh, wait!  There is!

--Kynn

PS:  Point, stated succinctly:  When done right, bandwidth is not
      an insurmountable obstacle since it could be handled on the
      user agent end.

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Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com>
Technical Developer Liaison
Reef North America
Accessibility - W3C - Integrator Network
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Received on Thursday, 30 August 2001 20:55:43 UTC