I pay SEK 399/mo (USD 56/mo) for 24/3 no cap or port blocking. I also get a fixed IP-address.
Actual speed varies depending on how close you are to the nearest switch (24 mbit probably requires you to live inside the switch - peak measured speed for me has been 18-20 mbit).
I second that opinion. In my experience non-technical users find the wiki syntax really difficult to learn. They barely know how to do formatting in Word and would be better off with a wysiwyg editor.
I pay around USD 40/mo for a 24 Mbit connection. The same company forced me to "upgrade" my previous 8 Mbit connection which was USD 50/mo. Rates are certainly dropping.
I am developing a Jaws emulator for Firefox called Fangs. Fangs is GPL and targeted at sighted web developers to help them understand how a web page is rendered by a commonly used screen reader. As a side effect it helps Jaws read Firefox pages in a similar way to how it reads IE pages.
In that work I have received loads of emails from people who would like to use Firefox in an assisted way. That is why I am planning to start a new project using the same rendering engine as Fangs to create a navigatable text representation of a web page. Much of the work is already done in Fangs.
Creating software for visually impaired users requires a decent speech synthesizer. This should preferrably be part of the OS. Check out FreeTTS and the "alan" voice. FreeTTS is the only OSS speech synthesizer I know of. Does anyone know of a distribution with libraries for text to speech synthesis?
Submitting your site for indexing requires you to send them an email with the URL. I'm wary about sending my email address to an unknown chinese company. No thanks.
Also, they have a lot of unnecessary html in their layout. Are they not expecting any traffic?
The problem is that web applications tend to rely on IE-specific features such as the MSHTML Edit area component or other ActiveX controls. Until a viable alternative shows up product vendors will design their corporate applications for IE for the foreseavle future.
An organiszation likely uses IE for more things than providing web surfing for their employees. How many large-scale web-based ERP and CRM-systems run on Firefox? Not many I can tell you.
You will enjoy the name of my blog I see. However, the W3C recommendations are the closest thing you get to a standard for web content right now. And although the use of standards always has to have an ulterior motive, the booming interest is good for the web.
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I pay SEK 399/mo (USD 56/mo) for 24/3 no cap or port blocking. I also get a fixed IP-address.
Actual speed varies depending on how close you are to the nearest switch (24 mbit probably requires you to live inside the switch - peak measured speed for me has been 18-20 mbit).
I second that opinion. In my experience non-technical users find the wiki syntax really difficult to learn. They barely know how to do formatting in Word and would be better off with a wysiwyg editor.
I pay around USD 40/mo for a 24 Mbit connection. The same company forced me to "upgrade" my previous 8 Mbit connection which was USD 50/mo. Rates are certainly dropping.
In that work I have received loads of emails from people who would like to use Firefox in an assisted way. That is why I am planning to start a new project using the same rendering engine as Fangs to create a navigatable text representation of a web page. Much of the work is already done in Fangs.
Creating software for visually impaired users requires a decent speech synthesizer. This should preferrably be part of the OS. Check out FreeTTS and the "alan" voice. FreeTTS is the only OSS speech synthesizer I know of. Does anyone know of a distribution with libraries for text to speech synthesis?
Submitting your site for indexing requires you to send them an email with the URL. I'm wary about sending my email address to an unknown chinese company. No thanks.
Also, they have a lot of unnecessary html in their layout. Are they not expecting any traffic?
The problem is that web applications tend to rely on IE-specific features such as the MSHTML Edit area component or other ActiveX controls. Until a viable alternative shows up product vendors will design their corporate applications for IE for the foreseavle future.
An organiszation likely uses IE for more things than providing web surfing for their employees. How many large-scale web-based ERP and CRM-systems run on Firefox? Not many I can tell you.
You will enjoy the name of my blog I see. However, the W3C recommendations are the closest thing you get to a standard for web content right now. And although the use of standards always has to have an ulterior motive, the booming interest is good for the web.