![]() Yeah, I agree totally Printninja, there's no reason at all that any browser should be making our decisions for us. There's a reason such programs are best for quick and dirty jobs Let's face it, if I'm developing for those customers who can't be bothered listening to me, they're in the "amateur" sector anyway.įor the big, corporate, clients - clients most interested in maximising returns on money invested, those most prepared to learn what research has shown works most effectively - I won't be using a "builder" program, like BSS, Mobirise, whatever, anyway. I'm writing for a particular market segment. There're more than enough developers, clearly, prepared to do whatever "the customer" wants.Īnd there're more than enough customers for me to make a comfortable living while I'm maintaining standards. Jo, I'm with you in your first response "What I tend to do is try to talk them out of whatever thing they want to do that isn’t good for the visitors". What you have to remember is that you're developing for other people, not just for developers like your coterie of friends. You all seem to have disappeared up some dark place. ![]() Many potential customers will be lost if you try to control, rather than influence, their behaviour. Why stupid? Because if you ignore the above recommendations, you'll VERY quickly alienate your viewers, or your potential viewers - and that will make it less likely they'll make themselves available for you to make impressions on them in the future - and in advertising (and we're all in "advertising" - or trying to sell an idea to someone) - it's key that you make as many impressions on your "market" as you can). ![]() Why ignorant? Because the writer has failed to read read, understand, and take seriously, the many postings by other authors on the "correct" procedures to follow when using sliders with people advising "never put a slider on the home page" and "always put the viewing of the slider at the discretion of the viewer", and "leave the viewing at the pace of the individual viewer as well as the time of viewing at the discretion of the viewer - if it's worth viewing the viewer will come back to it when they decide they have the time, and frame of mind, to view it" Obviously I've been incorrect in assuming this. Why disappointing? Because I have in the past been impressed by how valuable material from this author has been - to the extent that if I had seen something from them I would have automatically read them thinking they were pretty likely to be worth my time. This is one of the most disappointing, ignorant, and profoundly stupid, responses I've been been witness to on these forums. People were clicking that video constantly (it's a really nice video so yeah lol) and wracked up a lot of bandwidth usage. We changed the page it was on and it lowered it right back down. His bandwidth usage went from a handful of MB to over 20 GB in 6 days. We originally put it on the home page where he wanted it. These raise the problem of the site owner having to possibly get a larger hosting package to accommodate their usage.įor example: On a client's site, we had a video that did "NOT" have auto play on at all, in any size. Videos use a lot of bandwidth, sound as well, but not quite as much. There are limitations depending on what you have on your site. It raises the bandwidth usage to the person who's website it is, and no matter what company tells you you get "unlimited" bandwidth, that is entirely not true. In case you were thinking that the bandwidth I mentioned was for the phone user it's not. Obviously that must be the case if every single browser has initiated this "off" setting for mobile devices. no, in essence, unless you can find some super scriptor to do it, it cannot and should not be done. It's there for a reason, people don't want auto play things on their phones, it's annoying, takes up bandwidth and many times takes too long to load and messes up the loading speed of a web page. ![]() There are no "on" switches for this, it would probably take a good bit of scripting to come up with a way around this. It is default off on all browsers in mobile size. ![]()
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