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Thread #119098   Message #2580999
Posted By: Mr Red
04-Mar-09 - 08:44 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Public PC's in UK slow? Use Google
Subject: RE: Tech: Public PC's in UK slow? Use Google
Thanks Jack. It has speeded-up since I constantly look at it. For that very reason. There is no doubt, that since I changed the site and spent a week constantly updating that it slowed-down until the changes became fewer. I am referring to the public Library system, specifically, because I live fairly central, in Gloucestershire UK.

If you were a terrorist would you use a PC that made you somewhat annonymous? and wouldn't you find ever more subtle ways to code and encrypt?. JavaScript is a pretty good way to hide your tracks, dynamically.

I cannot fault the official methodology - it is in my (and my fellow residents') safety interests anyway - but I do need a way of using the system to best present the pages. It is for casual users and they don't want to know why it takes forever to load. They just move on quickly.

I have had to put a reminder of how to use my navigation system - I thought it was typical of the web generally but we had one comment from a naive user already. She was on a different mission - equally scatty about it as it happens when she just wanted my site to work the way she thought it should. If it took 20 seconds to load and stuck refusing to run the JavaScript she would not know what to do (like refresh).