Hi Folks:
I just returned from visiting http://www.weather.com. I'm planning on
making a short trip out of town. I want to know what the weather is
doing in various cities within a hundred miles of my neck of the woods.
A few minor snowstorms are currently blowing in.
Of course the only thing anyone visiting the page would be interested
in finding there are a couple of paragraphs of brief textual information
about what the weather is doing. "Just the facts, Ma'am", as Jack Webb
used to say.
The page has a facility for entering the zip code for the area you are
interested in, and then you are referred to a page that does provide,
among heaps of irrelevant text and superfluous graphics and advertisements,
a weather report issued by the National Weather Service for the city
entered. Each time you enter a different zip code for a different city,
you get referred to a different page which seems to take forever and a day
to download if you are using a graphics browser. The weather page is
among the very worst examples of web pages that offer so much information
so totally irrelevant and unhelpful to your understanding of what you are
trying to find out about. Because of all the time I was wasting in trying
to wade through all this garbage with a graphics browser, I just decided
to quit and give it a try with Bobcat/Lynx and Nettamer, both being text
browsers. Then it was wonderful. The text browsers were able to sift
through all the images and ads in a just a jiffy and display just the text
only. All I had to do then was to hit the "page down" key about three times
to find exactly what I was really looking for. Thank goodness for text
browsers! Everybody ought to have one, or even two.
Sam Heywood
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