On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Sergey Chernyshev
<sergey.chernys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually it is very related to usability - performance is a very important
> factor in usability and that is why Google, Yahoo and Amazon made research
> how it affects usage and figured out a few very interesting numbers that for
> them convert to hard cash:
Well, it depends on how broadly you construe "usability". If you take
"good usability" to mean "more use/sales", then it seems like
virtually any improvement to the software could could as a usability
improvement. I would normally interpret "good usability" to mean
"users are able to easily figure out how to use the software
properly". That seems to be how the usability grant interprets it.
Latency is not relevant to that kind of usability. Which is not to
say that reducing latency isn't an excellent idea, I just wouldn't
classify it as usability.
> Please don't give me this attitude - "you need it, you do it".
I wasn't sure if you were asking to contribute or asking for Wikimedia
help. If you were asking how to contribute personally, my answer was
perfectly appropriate. It seems that's not what you were asking, so
the next answer ("ask Brion") is the appropriate one for you.
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