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Re: Lynx, Links, and ELinks

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Old October 17th, 2008, 12:15 AM
Grant
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On 16 Oct 2008 21:55:42 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:
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>Carl <carl@never.comwrites:
Quote:
>>How many of the web developers here make their
>>sites accessible through text based browsers,
>
A web sites is accessible to /any/ web client
(otherwise it is not a web site).
>
When some people create sites that are only accessible with a
subset of web clients, they usually make an /extra effort/
(by not only using HTML, but additiional languages and plug-ins).
>
Web sites are not /made/ accessible.
>
Web sites /are/ accessible.
Crap, you've obviously not visited a site that renders as "[plug-in]"

...not accessible at all.

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Old October 17th, 2008, 02:35 AM
Guy Macon
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re: Re: Lynx, Links, and ELinks





Grant wrote:
Quote:
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>Stefan Ram wrote:
>
Quote:
>>Carl <carl@never.comwrites:
>
Quote:
Quote:
>>>How many of the web developers here make their
>>>sites accessible through text based browsers,
>>
> A web sites is accessible to /any/ web client
> (otherwise it is not a web site).
>>
> When some people create sites that are only accessible with a
> subset of web clients, they usually make an /extra effort/
> (by not only using HTML, but additiional languages and plug-ins).
>>
> Web sites are not /made/ accessible.
>>
> Web sites /are/ accessible.
>
>Crap, you've obviously not visited a site that renders as "[plug-in]"
>
>..not accessible at all.
Grant is correct. Stefan should have specified that he was only
talking about that subset of websites that are written in HTML.


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