Hi Charles.

04-Nov-03 02:20:02, Charles Angelich wrote to Roy J. Tellason


 CA> 1237dad6ef62 tech

 CA> Hello Roy -

 CA> --8<--cut

 RJT>>> And I'm going to make this judgement before having loaded the
 RJT>>> page? This doesn't quite make sense.

 CA>>> They track how long you stay at the page as well as how many
 CA>>> people load the page.

 RJT>> How long you stay? I think not.

 CA> I know so, I've seen the stats.

 RJT>> There are a lot of people who seem to have a misconception about
 RJT>> this, once you load a web page, there is no longer any
 RJT>> connection between you and the server, even though the
 RJT>> perception is that "you're still at that site" as the stuff is
 RJT>> still on your screen. No actual connection is maintained, until
 RJT>> you do something else.

 CA> This is not a misconception, it's not even a conception. I've read
 CA> the stats collected by the servers.

Have you someething to tell us or are you just being deliberately oblique?

 CA> I don't think all web designers should have their hands tied
 CA> behind their backs to satisfy the "from time to time" need to
 CA> print a web page.

more content-free claims. are you planning on taking up politics.

 RJT>> Oh. They still work here. 

 CA> You need to review the meaning of deprecated.

you need to review the meaning of 

 RJT>> The graphic refers to the little "bullet" or other gizmo that
 RJT>> gets put at the start of the line in unordered lists...

 CA> We were discussing the lack of circle and triangle tags and you
 CA> mentioned bullets? I don't see the comparison. Bullet shapes are
 CA> of no consequence.

it was tag that'd draw a circle...

 -=> Bye <=-

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