Re: [tlug] Feedback needed (i.e., website design): KISS

[Daniel Son <dsong@example.com>]

Keith Bawden wrote:
> On 11/1/07, Nguyen Vu Hung <vuhung16plus@example.com> wrote:
>   
> > Don't offically support Lynx because it is so not widely used. The use
> > of Lynx is for sysadmins who only has Internet access though a
> > terminal.
> >
> > You'd better look at your Apache's log and see how many accesses are
> > done with Lynx. I bet it is less than 0.1% out of all the requests.
> >     
>
> Lynx (or any other text only browser) will help you the see what your
> site looks like to search engines, and to text readers and other aids
> that visually impaired web surfers use. Text based browsers should be
> in the tool kit of ALL web developers - IMHO.
>   

Agreed here, but my problem is I extensively use javascript which is not 
supported by Lynx (I found a browser called Links, haven't looked at it 
yet, but they say it supports javascript in text mode), and visually 
impaired are the better argument in favour of doing text browsers than 
search bots. There was a fancy article on slashdot about what if google 
made google site their search engine friendly. Will find a link at some 
point.

D
> Regards, Keith
>