On 9 Nov 2010, at 8:48 AM, Andrew Diamond wrote:
I don't know if this has ever come up at any of the W3C conversations, but much of the rural world is still on dial-up or slower internet speeds, while the rest of the world advances at a much greater pace including java script, large detailed images, and other internet technologies. Has the W3C ever considered, perhaps, a <speed> tag identifier to distinguish between low/high speed connections?
Hi Andrew, SMIL has this feature. You might want to look into: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-SMIL3-20081201/smil-content.html#adef-systemBitrate _ Ian
Considering most large urban areas take this for granted, they neglect to remember the vast amount of users that still are forced to use a slow connection; a tag such as this, perhaps set by the browser, or in the phone/computers browsers settings, would select the correct version of a page to load based on this <speed> tag (or similar, just a suggestion). I've never written you guys, before because I never had a suggestion, but being a rural resident, I was sort of "forced" into this idea as a result of extremely slow, dial-up, internet connection speeds. Thank you, Andrew Diamond
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