I've got a $40 computer with a 28.8 modem. It fit my budget, and my needs when I bought it last summer.

To use the web as it was originally designed (ie. just download text and images), it works just fine. On web pages with excessive amounts of Java or Flash, it slows down a lot.

I don't see what CSS adds to the web that's so useful. It's not making anything more efficient, and it breaks the model of content independant presentation that made the web useable in the first place.

Firefox is nearly 5 MB, and I don't want to fight with painstakingly downloading it (probably a 1/2 hr to 1 hr download), finding out it assumes some stupid ultra-modern convenience feature, and then trying to de-install it again without mucking up my system.

I could spend several thousand dollars on a new computer; but my past experience tells me that six months later, there would be someone on the web ranting about how there was "no excuse" for not buying the latest and greatest widget X.

If I need to buy new hardware just to view a normal web page (you know, without special video feeds, or holograms, or VRML), well, to me and to the average person, that web page isn't buzzword-compliant: it's just plain broken. --
Ytrew

In reply to Re^4: Web forum markup language and the Monastery ([[...]]) by Ytrew
in thread Web forum markup language and the Monastery by szabgab

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