?How to know the users connection speed

[davidpbrown]

Is there a simple, quick way to determine a users connection speed?.. not exactly but just to differentiate between slow and quick quick.

This, from me thinking on the future of the web.. XHTML2.0 offering collapsable objects.. if not video, then picture, if not picture then text.

A user with a slow connection/ slow computer is unlikely to want video that a broadband user might appreciate.

I always wondered that this might be part of the browsers default GET info but it appears not.

[moltar]

There is no quick and easy way to determine speed. You can write a script that will calculate the speed of relatively large fill download.

And talking about movies in your page. Not every broadband user will want a movie in their page either. People with slow computers can't handle large movies embeded into a page. I, personaly, hate when people embed any kind of sound, movies, java applets even flash. Sometimes even animated gifs annoy me :). But that's just me.

[davidpbrown]

I too hate when people embed any kind of sound, movies, java applets even flash. and of course worse still are midi's. *shudder*

but having only just looked at what upgrading to CSS and what XHTML2 would mean to me, I'm just random thinking on what the future of the web might be like..

Thanks :)