Subject: Re: your mail
To: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
From: D'Arcy" "J.M. <darcy@druid.druid.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 05/02/1999 17:03:45
Thus spake David Maxwell
> > this. The NetBSD page is extremely lynx friendly. Let's not lose that.
>
> Yes + No.
>
> Yes, NetBSD's main page should remain Lynx friendly.
> No, that doesn't mean we should sacrifice some of the prettier html
> options available to us.
I agree.
> Either have the web server detect the client, and for well known graphical
> ones with images loading, send them the pretty one, and the plainer one
> for others. (content is the same on both)
> Or resort to the classic (lynx/text version here) link.
I just happen to think that a page can look perfectly nice as a GUI page
and still be lynx/text friendly. Dancing buttons may be cool in a "look
at what I can do" sort of way but I have never found them to add anything
to the value of the page.
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