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
> 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.
Yes.
I consider that yet another reason (as if I needed one) to not use
them. I push b
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" wrote:
> On 2015-07-02 11:10 PM, Mark Lini
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 ci...@xenosoft.com
Grumpy old man here as well, but if you want to use certain
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 ci...@xenosoft.com
Grumpy old man here as well, but if you want to use certain sites
(example: price out a new Mazda veh
In a message dated 7/2/2015 5:14:33 P.M. MT, billdeg...@gmail.com writes:
I have been using Mosaic on my OpenVMS system, almost unusable, but fun.
In what way is it "unusable"?
It's more important in this day and age to keep up with the web publishing
standards than maintain backward compa
> It's more important in this day and age to keep up with the web
> publishing standards than maintain backward compatibility.
Depends on what you're aiming for. Not everyone cares about making the
latest glitz available even to those who can display it.
> Google penalizes sites that are not mob
the fun think about the old lunx browser is you could run it on a pc
8088 old system!
I have a pc speed little laptop and used the lynxin on the road
applications
we had a free net here in phx and many people used it for ages...
it was fun to use old machine with lynx
wasn't lynx before even Internet explorer 1.0?
Heck if you have retro computer site make it look as old fashioned as
you can
then it is retro... then if people don't like it... well... you know
the rest
lynx might be too primitive... noscreen graphics on page as you
