CHARLES ANGELICH -> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE >>Mini-Linux<< {at} 05 Dec
02  09:28:00

 CA> When using the OPERA browser shutting down graphics loading is
 CA> a click on the toolbar. In Netscape killing graphics still
 CA> downloads them, they just don't display - not much help really.

  I don't know about that. I always disable downloading pictures in the
config: user_pref("general.always_load_images", false). Then I
click on the "show images" button or the image placeholder when
I'm interested. That works as expected. It's better than in MSIE (Internet
Explorer) where there's no setting for downloading pictures, only for
displaying pictures. While the network traffic is the same in both cases,
MSIE doesn't show cached and local pictures when pictures are disabled.
Worse yet, I can't find a function like the "show images" in
Netscape. Can y'all?

 CA> Putting the menubar on the right side of the site map page was
 CA> a pain which is why most put it on the left side. I told my
 CA> daughter no one rests the mouse cursor on the LEFT side of the
 CA> screen.

  I don't see that as a problem. My mouse cursor is where I left it. If the
previous menu was on the left side, the next should be there, too.
  Oh! Do you mean that the scroll bar is usually on the right side? I
seldom click on it. I scroll with the keys even in GUI (tho I have a scroll
wheel on my mouse at work), maybe because that method works in CUI, too?
But I really did see people even setting numeric values by clicking on
arrows... Yuck!

 CA> My daughter has been a professional webmaster for the past 4
 CA> years or so. I occassionally jump in and do some work for her
 CA> company as a sub contractor. She told me, when I first became
 CA> interested, that a page should load in 15-20 seconds or people
 CA> will 'click away' to something else.

  Hmm, are you patient, men! I use dial-up, but if I don't get a useful,
readable (not necessarily fully downloaded) result in 10 seconds, I decide
it doesn't worth my while. Did I mention that I don't usually care for
images on web pages? :) There are organizations that go out of their way to
make their web interface unusable for creeps like me, but I don't miss a
lot. When all else fails I can use the phone for voice communication. :)

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