On Jun 22, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > hmmm are you saying that from the comfort of my dial up > connection I can make a browser that reads in text format > only when I'm , say, I'm researching stuff on Google or > Yahoo? that would be great.
Yes -- basically, there are other forms of the internet besides what you get in a regular computer web browser. People can surf the internet on their phones, or like me on a little computer that goes in my pocket and is supposedly an organizer. To make it easier for phone/organizer people to surf the internet, a lot of sites have alternate versions that are simple, low bandwidth, simple layout, look good on small screens and are very fast. If you can find a browser for your computer that reads these "mobile" versions instead, you'd probably be really happy. Now, because the websites are "smart", they recognize what kind of browser you're using and direct you automatically. So when I'm on my computer and go to google.com, I get regular Google. If I'm on my Palm, I get redirected to google.com/palm. Sometimes you can fake them out, by manually entering google.com/palm into your computer's browser (which works -- click on the Google News link to see what the mobile version of the site is like), but in the case of Yahoo!, they wonder why you want to look at that "crappy" version when you could see the whiz-bang version, so they redirect you back to the regular page. So what you need is the kind of internet browser that guys building mobile sites would use to check the sites and make sure they look okay. Some smart web-building people can probably tell you if such a thing exists. -Aaron -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
