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Hello Wayne - 

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WC> I very nearly mentioned you in my post to Roy as I know
WC> you're an HTML purist. 

That is what most people think, yes. My website is for users of
DOS and W31. DOS Internet apps cannot interpret javascript or
FLASH and W31 can only interpret early versions of javascript
(if at all). It would be illogical to have a "DOS and W31"
website that DOS and W31 users could barely manage to see/use.
:-) 

It is, in some ways, more difficult to write an "anybrowser"
website than it would be for me to allow DreamWeaver to 'load
the code' with bells and whistles. 

WC> Another gripe of mine is yellow on light colored background
WC> screens. 

Probably matches the wallpaper in their kitchens? 

WC> When hitting such a miserable site I invariably wonder if
WC> the author ever bothered to look at the resulting web page. 

They know what the text is and don't really _need_ to be able
to see it. 

WC> I'm willing to bet I'd have made a purchase from Comp USA
WC> were it not for their annoying web page. 

WC>> I've also had trouble with pages that never finish loading
WC>> on early Netscape releases. No problem here now with Win
WC>> 98 and IE 

WC> > 6.0 

CA>> When a browser seems to 'hang' at the end of a page load
CA>> it is almost always a banner ad. Companies that sell these
CA>> overload their resources by some multiples and can't
CA>> 'deliver' the graphics to all their customers at the same
CA>> time. 

WC> Very informative. I actually suspected something of this
WC> sort but really had no hard evidence for that belief. 

CA>> Banner ads are so very ugly and extreme in their attempts
CA>> to attract people's attention you would think advertisers
CA>> would realize that those ads just become an aversion and
CA>> the company name is associated with ugly cr*p. 

WC> I certainly react this way. 

CA>> Lately popups and popunders look like pinball machines (to
CA>> me). The people who create these are very low-class in
CA>> their choices of what makes up an advertisement. 

WC> Just because you _can_ do something doesn't mean you
WC> _should_ do something. 

I've tried to get this point across but webdesigners are
'showing off' for other webdesigners and don't really care. 

WC> I think these popups look impressive to whoever contracted
WC> the services of the coder but they never think how it may
WC> impact the target audience. 

To a degree it is only important that these people can claim to
_have_ a website and include that information on business cards
and in printed advertisements. They don't really expect to do
business via the website. 

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