Re: Magnifying JPEGs viewed in Safari?

In article <slrng24pqr.g1r.g.kreme@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Lewis <g.kreme@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In message <uce-473833.15244107052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>   Gregory <uce@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> > Depending on who "your" visitors actually are. About 1/6 of US users
are 
> > still at 56k or less. (Silly me. I think there's a substantial 
> > difference between 17% and "nearly none."
> 
> Based on my webserver logs (across a varied collection of sites, most
> not written by me but hosted by me) it is well under 5%.
> 
> The 16-17% that have dialup are not cruising around the web.  They are
> getting their email and going to a small handful of sites that they
> know, and that is all they are doing. 

You need to be careful basing any world wide or even all America wide 
trends on your own server logs.

> Even the very large sites like Amazon
> and Ebay are obviously not catering to the dialup user as those site
have
> more and more images.
>

What these sites do and what is good practice are not the same thing. 

> > Would you give me $100 every time I rolled a one on a die if I gave
> > you $10 every time I rolled 2-6?
> 
> That does that have to do with anything? Are you saying a dialup user is
> just as likely to make a purchase online as a broadband user?  Because
> if so, that is demonstrably false.
> 

Why would you jump to a demonstrably false interpretation? There is a 
simpler one staring us all in the face. That the dial up user is just as 
worthy a person as a broadband user and only the ignorant or the 
obsessively money minded website author would ignore the dial up user. I 
say ignorant because there is a way to design so that it is win win for 
all, you provide for bigger pics by linking to them. It is not an 
either/or situation. 


> Designing sites for the lowest common denominator merely impedes
> progress.  

Designing for a win win for all is not designing for the lowest common 
denominator. This is simply distorting the picture.

> I don't design for 640x480 screens, nor do I worry about 'web
> safe' colors because my assumption is that the vast majority of people
> have at least 1024x768 or better and are running with 16bit color. 
> Likewise, the vast majority are not on dialup lines.

You should not be designing for any screen size. It is as simple as that.

-- 
dorayme