Fred Bauder (fredbaud@ctelco.net) [050523 06:07]:
This is the typical type of problem you run into with folks using old equipment and obsolete software. Like, for example, folks in Mexico who use castoff US equipment. Given our geek editor base, most of whom have reasonably good equipment, it is hard to put ourselves in the position of those who are are trying to access the internet under less than optimal conditions, but is is good if we could to the extent we are able and accomodate them to the extent we can.
I was recently on dialup (waiting for BT to switch on my new DSL) and using my lovely but aging Thinkpad 560X - Pentium MMX 233MHz, 96MB RAM. Firefox is horribly slow with 96MB RAM ;-) I managed to work on Wikipedia and even do arbitration (a real test of the usability of a tabbed browser) - so we're doing okay for equipment of that level. It'd be interesting to try it in Netscape 3 on a 486 with 12MB RAM like I had up to 2001 ;-)
- d.