[Leica] Re: Loading speed

[eperea at walkereng.com (Emilio Perea)]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:33:15PM -0400, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
> 
> B. D.s site loads in 10 seconds on my Mac running Safari. But then I 
> have a high speed cable connection. By actual measurement it runs about 
> 50 times faster than my old dial up connection on AOL. I can understand 
> why anyone who waited 8 minutes for the site to load might find it 
> tedious.

A more serious objection to the use of flash is that it is a proprietary
protocol not available to all who might be interested in viewing his
site.  I believe that it is foolish to post anything on the Internet that
depends on a particular vendor's software to view.  Particularly Adobe's.

When I try to open http://www.bdcolenphoto.com, I get a notice:
 "To visit this site, you will need to download a more recent version of
 the free Macromedia Flash player."

When I click on the "Download Flash" link, I get:
 "We are unable to locate a single Web player that best matches your
 platform and operating system.
 "Please visit our table of recommended Web players."

Since I am not willing to change my platform (AMD64) or operating system
(OpenBSD) I am unable to visit his site from my home PC.  (There is an
opera-flashplugin that I can use at the office, but it's only available
on the i386 platform.)

I'm sure than in this case the loss is all mine, but it is not
inconceivable that a potential customer would be unwilling to jump
through hoops in order to view a website.