How many use old browsers (e.g. =< Netscape 4 or IE 6) as their ONLY sour...

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Thu Jul 2 22:10:33 CDT 2015


On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 07:01:33PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
> My websites tend to be "best viewed with Lynx 2.0", although I often
> use IE 8.
> 
> Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com

Grumpy old man here as well, but if you want to use certain sites
(example: price out a new Mazda vehicle, pay certain health insurance)
they simply will not work without the interactive razzle-dazzle.  We
can moan if we want.  And, yes, I have a copy of lynx installed on this
very machine as a sanity-test of my own websites.

FWIW, the last time I looked at BBC News with lynx (I had confused my
laptop's X setup in a botched upgrade), man did it load fast :-)

mcl


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