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Patrick Dunford <patrick_dunford@hotmail.com.nz> wrote:
>Verily, verily snail@careless.netOOPS.au (snail) didst write on 30 Apr
>>Yep. Given that lynx assumes a vt100 setup IIRC, it can't do much in
>>terms of screen display, however it does at least give you access to
>>the information. I think it's a compromise that works quite well. 
>
>Does Unix have any standards for graphics? When I started using

I wouldn't know. Although I'd imagine it's dealt with in some of the
X stuff. However I'm not a programmer so I'd be a wee bit out of my
depth if I took this any further :)

>Or to put it another way, how many people are likely to be using
>text-only clients on anything, including Unix?
>
Don't know, although it'd be nice to see figures. For example lynx is
quite popular with the blind, as there is s/w that converts text to
speech which works quite well with Lynx, but tends to fall over with
a graphical browser. Certainly text-only clients would be a fairly
small minority these days, limited mainly to uni students (and even
then many edu sites offer graphical access these days) and the
disabled. I personally prefer using lynx as I find the graphics
confusing and generally inhibit my search for information. Bad
page design doesn't help.
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