[thelist] RE: Old Browsers old Software, cut bait and move on.

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 12 07:29:50 CDT 2001


> From: "Eveline Vanhemel" <eveline_vanhemel at pi.be>
[...]
> What about this: I have a lot of browsers installed on my PC so I
> never have a problem with sites that are customized to a specific
> browser. But what I really hate is this: the first time I enter a site
> with a lot of eye candy, I admire the work of the designer and with
> pleasure I look at all the fancy stuff. The next time I return to that
> site, I don't want to see it anymore because the second time I am
> looking for information that I need.... I really hate it then if there
> isn't a plain HTML version of the site available... and this isn't my
> opinion only, the customers I was talking about were very glad
> afterwards I persuaded them in a double website, I lot of their
> customers have mentioned this same point I made to them also...

this is most evident in splash pages... may look nice the first time, 
but no one really wants to see it again...

which is why this article was so popular for a little while:
Let the User Skip the Splash Page
http://evolt.org/article/list/20/416/index.html

imagine if web pages did that natively...





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