RE: [WSG] Emulating text browser

2005-10-25 Thread Earle Castledine
ty nerdy site) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of heretic Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 4:54 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Emulating text browser > Does anyone actually use lynx anymore though Actually I know someone

Re: [WSG] Emulating text browser

2005-10-25 Thread Rene Saarsoo
Alan Trick wrote: Does anyone actually use lynx anymore though (except sysadmins who haven't realises that VMS is not the lastest thing out there)? AFAIK links, w3m, and other text browsers are far more popular. All these other browsers preserve table structure. A quick check to the server of m

Re: [WSG] Emulating text browser

2005-10-25 Thread Terrence Wood
I use lynx regularly... and I actually surf with it. kind regards Terrence Wood. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +64-4-8033354 mobile: +64-21-120-1234 wsg_alantrik said: > Does anyone actually use lynx anymore though (except sysadmins who > haven't realises that VMS is not the lastest thing out

Re: [WSG] Emulating text browser

2005-10-25 Thread alejandro poch
Thank you. That's very helpfull. Thanks also to everyone who response my question. Gracias Terrence Wood wrote: The major gotcha with Operas text view is that it preserves table (columnar) structure where lynx just runs them all together. Try a precompiled binary: http://csant.info/lynx.h

Re: [WSG] Emulating text browser

2005-10-25 Thread heretic
> Does anyone actually use lynx anymore though Actually I know someone who uses it on a daily basis, due to an extremely limited network/bandwidth quota at his workplace. He can't install a second browser (locked down desktop), and he has to keep IE set up for sites that don't work without graphi

Re: [WSG] Emulating text browser

2005-10-24 Thread heretic
Hi there, > One of the Technical Guidelines is to use a text browser such as Lynx to ... > But recently I found that the Opera browser has an option to view your > web in the way a text browser should do ( View/Style/User/Emulate Text > Browser). Do anyone knows if the Lynx's browser is something

Re: [WSG] Emulating text browser

2005-10-24 Thread wsg_alantrik
Does anyone actually use lynx anymore though (except sysadmins who haven't realises that VMS is not the lastest thing out there)? AFAIK links, w3m, and other text browsers are far more popular. All these other browsers preserve table structure. Alan Trick Terrence Wood wrote: > The major gotcha w

Re: [WSG] Emulating text browser

2005-10-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
alejandro poch wrote: But recently I found that the Opera browser has an option to view your web in the way a text browser should do ( View/Style/User/Emulate Text Browser). Do anyone knows if the Lynx's browser is something like this option? I do have Lynx 2.8.5 running, but I use Opera to si

Re: [WSG] Emulating text browser

2005-10-24 Thread Terrence Wood
The major gotcha with Operas text view is that it preserves table (columnar) structure where lynx just runs them all together. Try a precompiled binary: http://csant.info/lynx.htm or a lynx viewer: http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/lynx/lynx_viewer.php kind regards Terrence Wood. alejand

Re: [WSG] Emulating text browser

2005-10-24 Thread Hassan Schroeder
alejandro poch wrote: > But recently I found that the Opera browser has an option to view your > web in the way a text browser should do ( View/Style/User/Emulate Text > Browser). Do anyone knows if the Lynx's browser is something like this > option? Uh, something like. Sorta. Well, not maybe tha

[WSG] Emulating text browser

2005-10-24 Thread alejandro poch
Hi there Following one of the links of the mailing list I found the Webmaster Guidelines for Google (http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/guidelines.html). One of the Technical Guidelines is to use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see y