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

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, May 11, 2007, David Bandel wrote:
>On 5/11/07, Man-wai Chang <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Could you offer me a user agent string that could make linux.org to
>> reply me text-only content? Thank you in advance.
>
>I think you'll find that this is _browser_ dependent, not site
>dependent.  If you use a text browser or block images and disallow
>javascript, etc., then you'll end up looking only at the text.
>
>That said, I didn't write either the html/xhtml or css for
>linux-sxs.org, so have no idea if the alt= tags have been properly
>used as substitutes for icons, etc.  Also, sites that allow for text
>only should include a way for "frames" (CSS fake frames or real
>frames) to be rewritten through judicious use of the skip tag, etc.

FWIW, the ``links'' text-only browser supports frames.

Bill
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