Re: Testing for lack of images

I understand all wireless has that sort of bandwidth.  I guess WML pages
will be about function and not about flash.  XML to HTML and XML to WML.  Or
can you say lynx.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Raj Bhaskar" <9705228b(at)student.gla.ac.uk>
To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 4:05 PM
Subject: Testing for lack of images


> Hi all,
> Recently, I've had the very nasty experience of having my phone
> bandwidth reduced to 9.6K (a certain phone company in the UK uses
> radio technology rather than copper/optic landlines) and have discovered
> how horrible that surfing the web can be in such circumstances and so
> have resorted to turning off images to try and speed up the experience.
>
>  Since my own website uses an imagemap as the only form of
> navigation, I was just wondering if there is any way to test whether the
> browser has got images turned on/is capable of displaying images so
> that I could display a text based menu if images were turned off.
>
> TIA,
> Raj.
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