Here is a simple example that replaces tables with div tags. I am in the process of migrating this site to html5
http://dev.matlackflorist.com/test.html Bill On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Terry Stewart <te...@webweavers.co.nz> wrote: > Thanks for all those replies, and feedback on what the test page looked > like on various devices. Much appreciated. > > I see there are various views as expected. I guess it depends on what I > want the website to do in the end. One of the reasons I'm doing this is > more to make sure the pages are ok for mobile. A lot of people now use a > mobile platform for their leisure browsing. On average 25% of the people > looking at the site are now on a mobile platform. > > However, I also want it to be nicely formatted, although somewhat > minimalist and clean. I also want it to be easy to maintain. I'm not > interested in people seeing ads (if fact those google ads on the site at > the moment are going to disappear) or whiz-bang things. I'd like to think > the site might inspire people into the hobby, or get them interested in the > history of personal computing, somehow. Especially younger people, or > people in their 30s-40s who weren't necessarily there in the day,,,or were > very young. This is why I'd like google search to index them well. So > people can find them. > > The site doesn't offer a lot of resources in the sense of downloads to the > community..the exception being the System 80 sub-section and NZ Bits and > Bytes downloads (which is mirrored on achive.org anyway). At the moment > the System 80 site might stay as is. It's a complex site and will probably > be the last piece I tackle. > > >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 > > Bill, can you point me to a site which covers this? What I don't want to > do though is to duplicate the site, but if something can strip out > everything except text, images and links on the fly if it detects a > non-compliant (old) browser, it might be worth looking at. > > >Oh, I know it can be done. It's not a /technical/ problem :-) > > Yes. It's an "is the effort worth it" for those hardy few kind of > question. > > Terry (Tez) >
