Browsers are the stumbling point (was Re: G5s now dumpster fruit, etc.)

5 Apr 2013

...
   There really
is no reason that web pages have to be so
 all-consuming.  Designers seem to think that we want to be
 overloaded with visual sensations.  Personally, I would much rather
 get the info I need, and not be pestered with ads and garbage.  Hear hear.  I hate
this "visual noise" generation that we seem to be
 mired in. 
Agreed.  There's a reason I use lynx.

Actually, there are multiple reasons I use lynx.  But that's one.

See http://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/blah/2009-09-07-1.html for a
more fleshed-out explanation of my stance; roughly the second quarter
of that post addresses this issue.  (Other posts on that blah talk
about other reasons, to varying extents....)

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Browsers are the stumbling point (was Re: G5s now dumpster fruit, etc.)