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Authored by: MLimburg on Tuesday, July 02 2002 @ 10:42 pm EDT

Aside from the internationalisation issue, you\'ve raised a VERY good point. Whilst having a flash enabled editor would just rock my/our world, we always need to ensure we support the lowest range of users.

We get used to the idea of 56k modem connections and Pentium level machines as the standard with higher systems being used, but there are PLENTY of older slower systems out there. When I was working at Monash University, we had to deal with international users on 386\'s with 1200b modems running on crappy lines .. it would have been faster to send the packets via cranky pack animals over goat tracks.

We can check a good deal of this via javascript. If the test is successful, they get the \'use the flashy stuff\' flag. Allow them to switch this flag in the account section. And allow everyone else the lowest common system that will work on everything.

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