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Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003
Andy King writes "Within the last five years, the size of the average web page has more than tripled, and the number of external objects has nearly doubled. While broadband users have experienced somewhat faster response times, narrowband users have been left behind." The article breaks down a number of changes besides just page size, including image types and video duration.
"Those people in rural area's still have the ability to get high speed internet, such as satellite, direct line of site towers, cellular or even DSL."
People who don't have to deal with are very misinformed about what is available. There is no cellular or towers available. DSL isn't even remotely feasable. And sattelite is so over sold by the 2 monopolies that the speed is OFTEN less than the 24.4 tops dial up that is available from 2 carriers.
Yes, were I live sucks big time. I made the mistake of thinking coverage would eventually be available, but its not. Around here (southern VA, east TN) a $50 dollar bribe to a cop and you can still get away with murder. It's the old west. I dont see things changing any time soon.
But no, I don't expect anyone to do anything to help poor old me out. But just don't go around thinking I have options available, I don't.
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NoScript is your friend. Avoid a lot of bloat (flash/javascript ads?), and adds some security
The opposite of broadband is baseband in computerspeak. I've lamented the misuse of narrowband in this context for years, and now even the geek sites are getting it wrong. Ever heard of 100 base T?
Nope. The opposite of "baseband" is "modulated".
Broadband is mostly a marketing term meaning "high throughput." The technical origin of the term broadband is the width of the frequency bands which are used in broadband technologies. It is such a fuzzy term that it is advisable to use more precise terminology if you want to convey anything but the marketing meaning.
POTS modems are generally not baseband devices (hence the name MOulator-DEModulator,) except when they perform quasi-digital transmission on the last mile (V.90). The politically correct term for POTS modem users is "internet access challenged."
It will of course need a modified design, but it can still all be handled by CSS. Just change the background-image URL, or remove the background altogether and do it with text.
I agree, the availability is really overestimated by people who are not in those situations. My parents live on a major highway less than a mile from the city limits of a city with a population of around 70K. There is no cable, no dsl, and they live at a lower elevation near the river so the local wireless provider doesn't have line of sight. Other than satellite, which as you say is pretty much a joke, they have no options. Cellular might be workable, but it's somewhat cost prohibitive as well. The problem isn't so much the size of the pages, but the overall availability of broadband. There needs to be a cost effective way to get high band out to these 'rural' areas.
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Um, that's in the spec already. Both the "height" and "width" attributes for the IMG tag can be defined as percentages.
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