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>Who's this guy, Jakob Nielsen, anyway, and what gives him the
>right to make those assumptions?

I think you answered your own question, Ian, when you used the word
"assumptions." Fact is, ANYONE can make assumptions -- the proof is
much harder to come by. It is YOUR assumption that the comments of Mr
Nielson are not valid. It is HIS assumption they are. No one need have
references to make assumptions. Isn't the net wonderful???

So I won't make any assumptions for anyone else -- I'll give you my
personal opinion.

If I don't see something happening on the screen within 30 seconds,
I figure there is a problem in the connection. I try reload, I go back
a page and reclick the link, anything to try to make the connection
download again.

"Something happening" -- in my definition -- does not include the globe
spinning on Netscape or anything built into the browser. I want to
SEE the window being displayed. Why? Because the advent of heavily
framed and Java based pages drive the browser indicators crazy. I've
had many times that the Netscape logo was flashing that a download
was happening, and nothing was. OR, it would stop flashing while a
Java Applet was loading and the page was still active.

As far as the comment someone posted about the counterintuitive fact
that links at the bottom of long pages are more likely to be clicked
than those at the front, I believe that I would fit that profile. If I
wait on a long page to load, I want to make sure I didn't miss
anything. I am VERY UNLIKELY to click the links at the top of the page
-- I don't want to leave until I check the rest of the page and see
what I might miss. So I scroll down. And when I get to the bottom of
the page, I'm already there and I've already seen the top of the page
-- so I click on the links at the bottom of the page. This is
particularly true with the common practice of duplicating links at
both the top and bottom of the screen -- why scroll back when I can
surf forward?

That's my two cents -- and worth every penny!

Ken

Ken Seemann
MCI WorldCom
Distance Learning Specialist
Corporate Training & Development