Adam, For what it's worth, - see this opinion: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=222044&cid=17992648
Let me quote from there just one point relevant to the text browsers: (the author of that comment also discusses the screen size issue) ''For example, if you are operating a Web site in the US (or in many cases the EU or Canada) anti-discrimination laws mean you'd better make your site accessible. And that means accessible to someone using a text-based browser such as Lynx, as well as a text reader. See the American Disabilities Act and the "508" laws.'' :-) I seldom think about this, but indeed, - try to run a screen reader (it is available in Windows - you may need to activate it via "Accessibility options" in Control Panel) on a website of your choice. You'll be surprised the gibberish you hear. Igor Wed Sep 19 15:28:09 EDT 2007 Adam Maas wrote: <...> So you test, and design for the average screen (1024x768 these days). <...> Frankly, text browsers are completely obsolete. Useful in certain limited circumstances, yes. But obsolete, and they have been for years. I've not found an actual need for a text browser in years, and even my *NIX machines don't have one installed. I don't think you can seriously expect designers to design against a browser with at most a few thousand users. And I seriously doubt that any text browser has more than a few thousand users today (Barring WAP browsers and such on PDA's and Smart Phones). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
