Can anyone tell me where this anti-AOL bias came from,
- Their software is like the Borg, and sends its tendrils into areas of the OS they have no business being.
- Their browser behaves in proprietary ways which prevent the user from experiencing the more sophisticated features prevelant in other browsers, and their software prevents you from using other browsers. This defect is also a pain for for web designers.
- Their proxy caches utilize proprietary graphic object compression which often degrade the appearance of the graphics.
- You must know how to edit the registry to get rid of their software.
AOL is designed for people who don't know anything about the Internet, and don't want to. That's why I wrote:
>>In describing the ease with which one can learn HTML, I like to use the example "even some AOL customers have learned how to write it!"<<,.
Every time I have witnessed an AOL customer in action, the screen was cluttered with a multitude of enormous buttons and graphics, and the user is viewing the Internet through a tiny little slit of a browser window.
Surfing the net with AOL is like riding a bike with training wheels.
I agree and disagree.
Obviously, you know more about the technical aspects of their software.
However, if you have a dial-up connection it makes sense to have AOL.
I haven't used AOL's browser in years, even when I had to dial-up.
Now that I have DSL, the AOL account is like a long-held phone number/back-up when DSL is down.
It works.
As for AOL people not knowing how the internet works?
Um, to be sure a lot don't because they're NEW to the game.
As I stated, I was doing HTML nearly a decade ago, and until the high-speed era, AOL was fine(except for that short time they took on more subscribers than they had bandwidth for)
Now, it's just a backup. I also have a bias against NetZero because what WAS free is no longer(not that I expected any different, but don't shove commie-glorifying commercials down my throat on football sundays either)
most broadband connections are NOT 9.95, so if a person can get AOL broadband or Verizon, go for it. Either would be better than
Excite@Home, which is what we had prior to Interquest.