Comments on: Gigs http://kennsarah.net/2004/04/19/gigs/ The Digital Home of Ken & Sarah Walker Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:16:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jai http://kennsarah.net/2004/04/19/gigs/comment-page-1/#comment-864 Jai Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kennsarah.net/?p=748#comment-864 Nice read K. I work at a place where the IT department is staggered by proprietary crud and it infurates me, but I can't do anything about it because I'm "just a web monkey"... Anyway, if you need any specific Pizazz help, lemme know. I know something about pizazz... and something about web standards. Course, I still think having 9 designs to your personal site and 14+ designs to a youth group site is cooler than anything you can imagine, but... But, you know what I mean. Glad you're writing a bit again! I want the Ken F. Walker book on how to write interesting stuff about tech stuff... Nice read K. I work at a place where the IT department is staggered by proprietary crud and it infurates me, but I can’t do anything about it because I’m “just a web monkey”…

Anyway, if you need any specific Pizazz help, lemme know. I know something about pizazz… and something about web standards. Course, I still think having 9 designs to your personal site and 14+ designs to a youth group site is cooler than anything you can imagine, but… But, you know what I mean. Glad you’re writing a bit again! I want the Ken F. Walker book on how to write interesting stuff about tech stuff…

]]> By: altp http://kennsarah.net/2004/04/19/gigs/comment-page-1/#comment-865 altp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kennsarah.net/?p=748#comment-865 -- Technologies built using web standards enable clients to cope with change; Flash does not. -- I agree completely ... But i would like to take it one step further and say, "If the user has to download a plugin, that could be one less user viewing your content" That isn't a universal truth, especially for media plugins like quicktime ... But for java and flash, i think it is. BTW: please don't confuse Java and Java Script. Java Script is useful for many things, and is also generally supported in most browsers 'out of the box'. So, following standards, should also allow more people to view your content without having to worry about them having to download plugins and whether those plugins are even available to some of your intended audience. Not just people finding your site via google search, but also staying on the site once they get there. /me admits he was one of those people that never downloaded Java or Flash, and just moved on when a site required them. Just don't think they are worth the bandwidth. (Though, he has them now, but only because they come with MacOS X) –
Technologies built using web standards enable clients to cope with change; Flash does not.
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I agree completely … But i would like to take it one step further and say, “If the user has to download a plugin, that could be one less user viewing your content”

That isn’t a universal truth, especially for media plugins like quicktime … But for java and flash, i think it is. BTW: please don’t confuse Java and Java Script. Java Script is useful for many things, and is also generally supported in most browsers ‘out of the box’.

So, following standards, should also allow more people to view your content without having to worry about them having to download plugins and whether those plugins are even available to some of your intended audience. Not just people finding your site via google search, but also staying on the site once they get there.

/me admits he was one of those people that never downloaded Java or Flash, and just moved on when a site required them. Just don’t think they are worth the bandwidth. (Though, he has them now, but only because they come with MacOS X)

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