"H a m m e r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob's considerations seem indeed rather SurvPC-OT. Wha..? Wait a minute! What I meant was "Have similar approaches been considered FOR SurvPCen?" In poking around with this idea, I stumbled upon an excellent demo of EXACTLY what I'm talking about from IBM. Their Transcoding demo (http://www.research.ibm.com/networked_data_systems/transcoding/Demos/demos. html) shows the potential. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how well the demo page itself would work from a lightweight browser. For a really effective demo, run Microsoft's page through the various levels of transformation (light graphics to text-only)! The results are well suited for input into lightweight browsers, screen readers and the like. The next level would be to incorporate a proxy-like version that would strip overhead on-the-fly. Run it on an easily reached "big" machine on the web somewhere, and it would put formerly out-of-reach sites within the grasp of all. LeanWeb (http://www.clasohm.com/leanweb/index.html) is along these lines. Again, this would allow DOS/text-only users access to sites that might be otherwise unusable. - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
