On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 04:11:42PM +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote: > I need information about user agents used for surfing WWW (especially > lynx). Where I can find it? I searched yahoo, and all pages with > stats that are reachable from that search results page are either old > or meaningless or are for very specific sites (like universities). Is > there any integrated stats or stats for some general-purpose sites, > that are not older than several monthes?
i don't have a direct answer for you, but if you're trying to justify (to bosses or to a web design team or whoever) why pages should be made as browser-neutral as possible, and should be viewable on lynx then take a look at http://www.anybrowser.org/ one big reason why lynx-compatible web pages are important is for disabled users such as the blind (or almost blind) - for some people, a text-mode browser and a speech synthesizer is the ONLY way they can access the web. i don't know what your laws are like in russia, but here in australia you can get hit with a discrimination lawsuit(*) if you don't support use by the disabled - it's pretty much mandated on government web servers, and large corporate sites (e.g. banks) would be taking a big risk if their internet service did not cater to the disabled. (*) the lawsuit isn't guarranteed to win, but there is anti-discrimination legislation which applies. craig -- craig sanders
