RE: [cobalt-users] Lynx

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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Colin J. Raven wrote:

> It's a pity that too few sites are optimized for non-graphical
> browsers...I remember a time when if you put up a site you'd get spanked
> by visitors if it wasn't automatically optimized for lynx et al.

In some subsets of the viewer community you can still get spanked.  The
National Federation for the Blind is one of my neighbors...and most of my
sites are on whatever informal list they have for "friendly" sites.

Locally, we have a large community of folks that have "free" web access
via the local libraries...and they all use Lynx...so, I tend to tune
the sites so that they can actually see them (g).

My first redesign job came from a newspaper that was frustrated by the
number of phone calls they received from folks who couldn't view their
page.  Found out that most of the callers were using Lynx, and their
webmaster had designed this beautiful, although huge, graphic that
had all them neat mapping coorinates, built-in buttons, arrows, animated
stuff...and of course no one with a text based browser could navigate.

BTW, your less is more was priceless...I'd like to out it up with the "New
Unix" piece.

> You can grab a lynx rpm on the redhat site.

And for those that still have a (shudder, showing age) DOS box, you can
actually find DOS based PPP clients that let you use LYNX in that
antiquated environment. (g)

thom

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