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

william degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 22:31:59 CDT 2015


It is quite easy with html 5 and css3, the modern tools of the web
designer, to detect when a  lynx browser is being used to access the page
and in response present a text version of the site.

best of both worlds

b
On Jul 2, 2015 11:14 PM, "Toby Thain" <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:

> On 2015-07-02 11:10 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> It's almost as if there should be laws around accessibility!
>
> --Toby
>
>
>> 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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