César Aracena wrote: > I think that the best way you can achieve this, considering all the > troubles and different configurations you will have to make for each > user, is to make them choose the type of connection they want, and set a > cookie in the visitor's browser with a one year life time which stores > that machine/visitor's connection.
And then you STILL have to allow users a way to come back and 'unset' their preference later, to deal with folks who have laptops and connect with high speed access at one location and then low speed access at another. Others' comments about letting the user choose are wise too... just because I'm on a fat pipe doesn't mean I want to let you use it ;-) There are folks who have a limited amount of bandwidth allocated per month and are careful about not exceeding it (yes that limitation would drive me nutes too, but that's beside the point). Most people in the world are still on "slow" pipes. I'd either default to sending them to the low version & let them switch if they want or dump the whole idea and just make one version that is a balance. Or not... Amazon.com offers (or did at least) a text-version.... but I'd much rather surf their "regular" site with images turned and then just turn images on (by pressing 'g' in Opera thankyouverymuch :-) than have to go through their 'low bandwidth' version. I think this is one of those ideas that makes a lot of sense in the abstract until you have to deal with all the other variables of life. TjL -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
