On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:43:44 GMT, Jay Honeck wrote:
I turn once again to you, the great internet gurus of aviation, for answers
to the mysteries of the web...

1. Does anyone know what the average speed modem is being used by the 70% of
people still using dial-up?

Almost all dial-up modems sold today will be the 56K bps, but will generally
not approach that because of telelphone line noise. For instance, I am
connected at 44K on such a modem. Your main page took 16 seconds to load -
not bad. Since most modems have error correction, if line noise causes an
error the packet (information is broken down in small packets which are sent
individually) is sent again, so you don't necessarily even achieve the
modem-to-line correct rate. So a _lot_ is dependent on line purity and this
can change from connection to connection from the same computer - yell at
the telephone company to repair it. haahaa

2. I hear people say that Java is "evil" all the time -- yet it seems that
every cool effect on a webpage requires Java. What is bad about Java

Scripting is usually, but not always, faster than applets because of their
loading time. But the _important_ thing is to have the Java written in
_standard_ code, ala Sun, and not an abortion of that code conceived by M$
which will only run on their machines. As a business you are shooting
yourself in the foot if the stuff only runs on M$ machines. (Some of us use
_real_ operating systems. grin) And while I am at it, the same goes for
the html code in the web page itself - same principle. M$ departed from the
standard code with 'special' effects and if those are used they may not work
correctly on other browsers, ala Firefox, Opera, Netscape, etc. So industry
standard html code should only be used.

scripting? How about "Flashmedia"?

Can be good if loading time is not excessive. Music causes huge loading times.
Flash must be handled well because of this.

3. I have pared our opening page back to practically nothing, yet it STILL
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www.AlexisParkInn.com if you want to take a gander at it.) How long is it

See #1.

How many of you guys actually make real-time, on-line hotel reservations?

Have used it with my dial-up successfully but don't always book that way.
Sometimes you can save by online booking.

Still warm feelings from the great time at your pre-OSH celebration this
summer and visiting with you and Mary at OSH.

....Edwin (the blue/white Maule)

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