It's not just Netscape that encourages these unwieldy, graphics burdened websites; Rush (the band, not the talk-show host) sang, "So much style without substance, so much stuff without style." <soapbox> A whole generation of Powerpoint heads who have figured out that a five minute presentation can become a twenty-five minute presentation if you use enough slides. Not to mention all the advertising people now involved who want the web to be a glossy-paper magazine ad (at a fraction of the cost of real printing) rather than a free-form research tool. Just try to get an Ad person interested in a slick, quick-loading lynx-friendly page; their eyes glaze over. We should start calling it the world-wide ad just so innocent children know what they're getting into. </soapbox> Way off-topic...sorry, as everyone knows advertising is essential to maintaining the American Way of Life and that I'd be a lot happier if I'd buy more crap; a lot more crap. phil misc.word.corp wrote:
I am not going to spend the rest of my days living in a cave and using Lynx to browse the web. Now, don't misunderstand me, I like lynx, but if I'm in x, I'm using Netscape.
I also like Lynx, but far too few Web sites are Lynx-friendly these days, and the constant scrolling through layout-related html drives me batty.
Netscape is superb in nearly every respect, but IMHO, it encourages developers to overload sites with graphics and multimedia apps that strain the bandwidth of the majority of users.
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I'm no Luddite, but I wish that the Web had prolonged its move into graphics until bandwidth issues had been resolved. At current modem speeds, we'd all be better off with text-based Web browsing -- using Lynx, naturally.
Just a few ideas, go ahead and flame if you like.
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