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From: "Bertilo Wennergren" <bertilow@hem.passagen.se>
To: <www-validator@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:56:39 +0100
Message-ID: <HBECLJECMMGNJGANOJEPIEMICDAA.bertilow@hem.passagen.se>
Subject: RE: Better browsing
James Pickering:
> > I know damn well that Netscape 4.* has an annoying "burp" when it
> > encounters a meta tag charset specification, that its implementation of
> > CSS1 is screwy, and that it's ignorant of CSS2 <snip>
> ...... and those are its good points!
> <snip> it wants to encourage
> > web-writers to tell would-be visitors with old browsers to buzz off, I
> > say to hell with WaSP.
> Ah, still the old gadfly, Peter! :-)
> But I would like to put in a plug for an excellent (and free) People with
> Disabilities oriented Browser -- MultiWeb. I extoll its virtues
> and explain it further at:
> http://www.brazilcacticult.org/wf4.htm
It doesn't say if MultiWeb handles the disability that consists in using
a non-Western language, like Russian or Japanese. Does it? Probably not
What happens when someone tries to access a WaSP-ified page with one
of the browsers targeted at disabled users, e.g. the blind? Will they
be sent to the WASP-site and told to upgrade to a browser they couldn't
even use?
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