- From: Access Systems <accessys@smart.net>
- Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:38:29 -0500 (EST)
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- cc: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>, sethmr@bellatlantic.net, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Kynn Bartlett wrote:
> At 8:49 PM -0500 12/24/01, Access Systems wrote:
> >On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> > > Of course, you need to have JavaScript enabled to get this code working :-)
> > > // but you can't do any on-page browser detection without
> >JavaScript, anyway.
> >But Javascript is not normally on in Lynx. (in fact I don't know how to
>
> Lynx doesn't do JavaScript. This should be considered a serious shortcoming
> in Lynx, but instead it seems to be viewed as a virtue. I'd really like
> to see text browser that did JavaScript and CSS.
in some ways it is a virtue
> See, we need to assume some level of basic support. Okay, so some
> browsers won't measure up to it -- but some browsers (such as Lynx)
> have not been reprogrammed in 5 years. More recent browsers do
??????? lynx version 2.8.3 was released on 17 July 2001!!! it is
maintained actively by the Univ of Kansas.
Bob
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