Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  When data and applications are all on the internet (13 Mar 2005) But the real disability is response time. Internet response time is slow. This is not a bandwidth issue, although high bandwidth helps. No, this is a remote access issue. The only time we get adequate response time is when the application and data are local. That being said, there are ways of working this, of quickly downloading the relevant code and data. Macromedia's Flash and Flex use this solution. This is how applets, flash, and other systems work. (Compare Google Maps with Yahoo Maps. Google puts all the data onto your computer, and the response time is faster and smoother than Yahoo. (Of course, Yahoo will soon catch up, so this statement will soon be out of date -- I hope.) Article URL: http://www.jnd.org/ask/index.html#000564 Read 71 more articles from Don Norman sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Have You Used Your Career Center Lately?     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy