codinghorror.com — With broadband adoption at an all-time high in the United States, can we finally assume that all users will have high-speed internet connections-- and by association, an enjoyable, responsive, non-painful way to use the internet? Or do web developers still need to accommodate dial-up users?
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julespMay 30, 2006
You forget the United States is although inferior in population to the EU vastly more important as a country and equal(if not a bit superior) in economic terms to all of the EU countries. It's important for them to know the US, It's not that important for us to know ALL of them(I'm talking about the average person).
tybrisMay 30, 2006
digg this down, wrong reply
acidzebraMay 30, 2006
"With broadband adoption at an all-time high in the United States"The internet is bigger than the US."can we finally assume that all users will have high-speed internet connections"will have, yes, I am sure at some point they will have. Right now they have not. Not even in the US.
liquidpenguinMay 30, 2006
I see some people hinting at this, but no one seems to be seeing the whole picture. It's really all about who you're trying to target and what you're trying to present (be it sales, a blog, or watever). If you're trying to sell something like say... books, you damn well better accomodate the lowest common denominator, which isn't even the lowly modem, if you expect to eek every last dollar out of the market.If you're trying to present something like the next Quake killer, you might as well go for broke if one of the requirements for your game *is* broadband. That's to be expected from that kind of website.The problem I find is that far too many "web designers" have absolutely no real experience designing websites. They don't realize that designing websites isn't just making everything look nice. Designing websites also involves understanding your target audience and what you're trying to present to them. For instance, I've been asked to evaulate why a shopping website is doing so poorly (as in no sales for the last six months). I spent less than five minutes navigating the site before I asked if a teenager designed the site (the answer was yes). The site suffered from a splash screen, HTML resized images, and as many as three clicks to see individual products and up to six after that to arrive at the actual purchase page. Turns out the site was modeled after one of the teenager's favorite site, which wasn't a sales based site at all.In short, if you don't know what WAP is, how baud used to relate, or understand what 3-tier is meant to resolve, don't design websites.
antdudeMay 30, 2006
You mean 26.4 = 26400.
recover82May 31, 2006
i still have dial up at home.
dnthompsMay 31, 2006
Yeah f*cking right... I do tech support for a major online university and I will estimate that AT LEAST 30% of users are on dialup. That number is probably low due to the fact that half of them do their work on their T1 work connections. I tell you what... call my on a dialup connection and you can bet your going to hear the hold music at least 4 times durring our call.
lilbambiJun 20, 2008
Dialup is still the only game in town for many, even here in the United States. Despite that, many sites have totally forgotten about them. Many standard type websites, I am not even talking about websites with streaming video or high bit rate audio stream, are still geared for broadband users. For most websites, even if they offer video and/or audio, should at least have the rest of their site something that loads well on dialup. If they really wanted to get their information out there, they would at least try to accommodate dialup users in some way so it doesn't take 5 minutes or longer, or it just times out, to load a website.