[thelist] Lynx (was corporate sites examples)

J Isaac Swiderski jswiders at cs.oberlin.edu
Tue Feb 26 13:05:00 CST 2002


> From: "David Kutcher" <david_kutcher at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Good examples of corporate sites
> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:12:55 -0500
>
> > Most of them are due to the omission of ALT text, which means that all
> > of the links show as [LINK] rather than anything meaningful in Lynx.
>
> Does anyone still use lynx?  realistically?  or is that spending extra k to
> appease one half of one percent?

Computer science students may or may not be your target audience
(which is, as has been apparently-not-quite-completely beaten into the
ground, the only relevant point), but I know I use Lynx fairly often
-- anytime I follow a link in email (which I read in PINE), Lynx is my
default browser.  Anytime I don't feel like waiting for a graphical
browser to boot, I use Lynx.  (Sometimes I use Links, when I can --
gnu.org I think has links to Links.)  Anytime I want to make sure my
website makes sense without tables, CSS, or much of anything else, I
use Lynx.  It's also the closest thing I know of to a simulation of a
voice browser / screen reader, given that I don't have the sound card
or the disposable cash to get one . . . .


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