cinnamon thoughts.

The average internet user wants information or entertainment. As long as he get what he wants it’s OK. If Google didn’t find what he was looking for he doesn’t care about your website at all.

This is why I think 99% of the internet users don’t care how a site looks. They are too overwhelmed by ads, links and information in general to care if the site’s menu is clean and structured or the drop shadow of your <hr /> tag is pretty.

99% of the internet users don’t know that changing something dynamically on a website without reloading is done by AJAX and cool because there are different technologies involved. (Take a look at my Archives to see AJAX in action.)

99% of the internet users don’t have a clue why 1% awaits the day the Internet Explorer supports alpha transparency in PNGs.

And that’s OK. They don’t have to know.

(originally posted in parts on “The MySpace Problem“)

tags: internet usage , MySpace problem , Web 2.0 , web standards 

Posted on Saturday, July 15th, 2006 at 10:03h (CEST) by Daniel Gattermann. This Post is filed under Internet, Thoughts. You can follow responses through the comment feed and view other blogs commenting on this post. You can also leave a response, or trackback from your own site.