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Lynx doesn't need either font tags or CSS formatting...it displays pages as ASCII text. Sort of like your command prompt screen. Black-and-white (or whatever terminal colors you use!). Of course, in a pure CSS-driven environment, where structure and presentation are fully separated, CSS is quite capable of formatting for many platforms, but Lynx is a platform that needs very little presentation help. It is Lynx's very lack of formatting that makes it useful to designers. It can help us determine the logical structure of our document when that page is rendered with non-browser platforms. It points out in a glaring way situations where the lack of a visual cue really leaves the content more confusing than informative. I agree with cbirds that Lynx is certainly not a commonly used browser and very likely not a platform you should break a deal over. It is, however, a very cheap (er...free!) tool that can be quite useful for accessibility research. D ----- Original Message ----- From: "cbirds" It would seem unimportant then, to care about Lynx, when most people on this list really only care about IE 6... Do you actually know anyone who uses Lynx? And how does Lynx fare with no font tags? Just as poorly I'm willing to bet since I wonder if Lynx can see CSS fonts.
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