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Cc: "Adam C. Engst" , online-news@marketplace.com
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On Fri, 23 Sep 1994 jvncnet!teletimes.com!editor@dowv wrote:

> >I'm not looking for a world of ASCII and radio - I'm just saying that going
> >on about how electronic publishing requires fonts and graphics and layout
> >is an exaggeration. Many publications will be better with them, and many
> >others would be worse (since there are so many bad designs).

> I agree completely. The kind of design that suits a publication will differ
> enormously. The content of some magazines is perfectly suited to video,
> sound and plenty of bright graphic design. Others, like TIDBITS, can do
> very well with minimal design. It is a common mistake to think that the
> more graphics a publication has, the more graphically appealing it will be.

There are several trade-offs.  When you are getting your news off a 14.4
Kb link, do you really want to wait 5 minutes for every 3 meg GIF file
that gets attached to every single article?  Give me the HTML reference,
or it's equivalent so that I can get the picture when I've determined that
I really want the graphic for that article.  I can read 60 stories/hour
if I don't have the pictures.  If I have to wait for pictures, I will get
less than 10 stories/hour.  I DO want the graphics for stories which will
convey a message I want to deliver to a work-group.  What are the group rates?




From jvncnet!marketplace.com!owner-online-news Mon Sep 26 19:07:51 1994
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To: "Craig O'Donnell" ,
        "Adam C. Engst"