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Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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lugnet.castle
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Date:
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Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:47:30 GMT
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javanree@vanree^spamless^.net
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John Herre wrote:
> While he could have been more tactful, he is right. The pop-up is
> annoying, and websites that require the user to have the newest software
> and/or hardware are poorly designed.
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> My initial experience (dialup/windows 98/newest version of flash)...
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> It takes me a little over 2 minutes from the time the pop-up comes up to
> the time the loading graphic appears, if I'm doing nothing else over the
> connection. If you can't speed this up, you should have a warning in your
> main warning that it could be several minutes before the 'loading' text
> appears in the new window.
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> After clicking on 'Medieval Weapon Set', I get the loading image
> graphic... and
> that is all. Wait awhile, nothing happens. Go away after 20 minutes,
> come back 2 hours later, and its still loading the image.
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> After trying some other things, I eventually discovered that some of the
> images
> will not display for me until I click on "View Details"/"See Insitu".
> Once I figured this out, and started clicking on "View Details"/"See
> Insitu" regularly, it took only about 10 seconds per image, which is much
> more reasonable.
Almost similair experiences here (cable instead of dial-up and Linux/KDE
instead of Win98) ...
Please either also do a non-flash site or tweak the Flash pages to load
better. Although we're perhaps a minority, there are people that don't use
broadband/MS Internet Explorer and/or the latest plugings (some because
they don't care, others such as me because it doesn't exist for their
system)
--
Jan-Albert van Ree | http://www.vanree.net/~javanree/
LEGO Santa Fe B-unit | http://www.vanree.net/~javanree/lego/f7b.html
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| (...) -snip- While he could have been more tactful, he is right. The pop-up is annoying, and websites that require the user to have the newest software and/or hardware are poorly designed. My initial experience (dialup/windows 98/newest version of (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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