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

[Toby Thain]

On 2015-07-02 11:31 PM, william degnan wrote:
> 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

Oh, I know it can be done. It's not a /technical/ problem :-)

--T

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> 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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