Re: Minimal Browser Capabilities

On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, David Poehlman wrote:

> it's not considered a virtue.  It has been discovered that since lynx is
> a static browser that java script does not fit into it.

I guess it depends on what is desired, nothing wrong with a static
browser.   

  I have used Lynx for many years and each versions gets better and it
really seperates the wheat from the chaff on the internet.  When I visit a
site in Mozila for some reason it is mind boggling the signal to noise
ratio....and just plain bloody slow to load, especially on a dial up modem
such as my laptop

Bob


  > 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kynn Bartlett" <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
> To: "Access Systems" <accessys@smart.net>; "Vadim Plessky"
> <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
> Cc: <sethmr@bellatlantic.net>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 9:17 PM
> Subject: Minimal Browser Capabilities
> 
> 
> 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
> >enable it in Lynx or if it is even possible)
> 
> 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.
> 
> Anyway, the answer there would be a <noscript> fallback intended for
> browsers which don't do JavaScript or which don't have JavaScript
> enabled.
> 
> >I say it again, there should be no assumption what so ever that there
> is
> >any user side support for anything.
> 
> Surely you don't mean "for _anything_".  Do you assume client-side
> support for HTML 2.0?  What about HTML 3.2?  What about HTML 4.01
> Transitional?  What about HTML 4.01 Strict?  What about CSS level
> 1?  What about CSS level 2?  What about ECMAScript?  What about
> DOM?
> 
> 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
> indeed have some degree of all of the above, so the answer simply
> is to ask what is the reasonable level of support to expect, and
> is it fair game to expect someone to be using a reasonable browser
> when accessing your site?
> 
> --Kynn
> 
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