Text-only access to http://www.linux.org

Bill Campbell linux-sxs
Thu May 10 09:54:23 PDT 2007


On Thu, May 10, 2007, Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> What is wrong with using a text mode browser, like lynx?
>
>That means using the browser string add-on to fool the site. :)

It shouldn't be a matter of ``fooling'' the site, beyond possibly having it
determine which CSS to present based on the type of browser connecting.

When I took a five day Plone training course last month from Joel Burton,
Joel pointed out that Google is the most important blind person in the world
as Google's indexing is all text-only.

Bill
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