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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: john-dowdell</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/john-dowdell.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-08-08T15:51:02+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Quoting John Dowdell</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/8/john/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-08-08T15:51:02+00:00</published><updated>2008-08-08T15:51:02+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/8/john/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    &lt;blockquote cite="http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=704#comment-234910"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Download size has been an issue in the past. [...] In the early days Macromedia did studies adding null kilobytes to Player downloads and measuring the dropoff rate in completed installations. The more time people have to hit that "Cancel Download" button, the more will do so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p class="cite"&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;a href="http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=704#comment-234910"&gt;John Dowdell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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