Lynx is a browser that is included in most Unix/Linux passages, and is verty
useful.

If you are worried about viewers with disabilities (and if you do a public
site or a site for a large corporation you should be), then it is very
useful to see whether your pages are navigable and/or readble to the site
impaired.

Frank

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell King" <darrell(at)webctr.com>
To: "cbirds" <cbirds(at)earthlink.net>; "HWG- Techniquess"
<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: Stupid Question ~ Was "Re: Paragraphing"


> 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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