Humphrey
As an old LSE geographer can I suggest that place is more than location, it
is heavily dependent upon the culture of the society within that place.
The trial page has just taken me 2 minutes 36 seconds to download using an
ISDN line, admittedly one linked to BT. That is clearly not acceptable.
Such Java driven sites all suffer from the same problem, the University of
Wales Colloquia programme a year or so ago faced similar challenges, and we
were reluctantly unable to use what would have been a useful system.
In Humphrey's terms we may all be using seriously obsolete browsers. My
department at Sussex has many machines running W95 on 333 machines, and
within our international education network we know of many countries where
old 286 machines are the only means of online communication. I'm no sure
what current hardware statistics are suggesting but I doubt whether it has
moved beyond IE4, and remember that's within the so-called developed world.
There must be another way.
Trevor Lockwood
www.author.co.uk
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