UKNM: re: uknm: fast-loading sites

[tom hukins]

on wed, oct 13, 1999 at 06:55:04am -0400, lee rickler wrote:

> 

> but seriously. within 6 months adsl will start to become the

> standard. then, due to more web access thanever, more and more

> households will realise that they simply need to invest.


lee, you've raised a good point: web designers should consider the

future as well as the present when planning their work.


adsl will *start* to become a standard soon, but it'll take a while

to cover the whole of the uk. rural areas will not have access to

adsl or cable tv for some time yet.


besides, what about everyone who accesses the internet from work?

what about internet users at universities with slow links to

non-janet sites? there are plenty of large organisations with

overloaded internet connections that they will not, or cannot afford

to upgrade.


it's also important to bear globalisation in mind. uk companies will

increasingly benefit from being able to sell abroad. they won't sell

abroad if their sites aren't accessible over congested long-distance

links.


of course, content replication and caching will reduce these

problems, but predominantly for the most popular sites. smaller

sites will be accessed infrequently, so their pages won't be cached.

efficient content replication and redirection is unlikely to be an

option for most sites for some time.


> right now it's just not worth bloating out pages, but within a

> year we will see more and more sloppy coding/ compression simply

> due to the fact that it aint something to worry about.


i think there are two issues here: sloppy coding and sloppy use of

bandwidth. cpu, memory and disk prices decrease considerably faster

than bandwidth prices. therefore, server side code (eg. cgi scripts,

asp, etc.) and client side code (flash, java, javascript, etc.) will

be able to use more resources on the client or server machines, so

long as high bandwidth connections aren't required.


> anyone remember when the img tag was first introduced? i do and

> remember how exciting it was to spend ages downloading a massive 10k

> image on a 9k bt modem !!


i can just about remember watching a slow 486 trying to render html

including images with mosaic... :-)


tom


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