Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry, yes I meant scripts written in Java - I am no expert I have not heard of Javascript. I read of one fashion web site which which went bankrupt. It had raised 100m pounds on the stock market to launch a site where customers could dress a cyber mannequin with their chosen clothes in order to imagine what they themselves would look like in them. The site received few visitors. It turns out the page took 28 minutes to download over a modem. I imagine the cretin who designed the page only tested it with the sort of kit available to 100m companies - not their potential customers. cheers Frank > > Mxsmanic wrote > > Frank Dernie writes: > >> IME many Java scripts hang my computer. A restart >> is such a PITA that I never enable Java. Sites that >> absolutely require java will not get me as a >> visitor. > > I have Java permanently disabled. However, Java is distinct from Javascript, > the latter being less harmful (and much more widely used). Is Java really > what > you meant? > >> In general I am unimpressed by complexity - >> particularly in web sites. > > Content is what makes a Web site interesting, but precious few webmasters > realize this. > > Here in France, lots of Web sites are nothing more than a Shockwave > animation--you can't enter the site any other way than through the animation. > Needless to say, I never visit these sites, since I have all ActiveX controls > turned off (they are easily a thousand times more dangerous than Java or > Javascript).