From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:54:34 +0200 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Cc: alteridentity@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [9fans] Gecko based web browser Message-ID: <20000727095433.O18891@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <397F24FA.2FDAF786@yahoo.com> <008901bff79e$885c3160$02a7b6c3@lucid.proweb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <008901bff79e$885c3160$02a7b6c3@lucid.proweb.net>; from Matt on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:43:23AM +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: eb9fbe62-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:43:23AM +0100, Matt wrote: > > Designers, esp. the newer ones, are quite happy to use script all over the > place and I think that the web will become increasingly unusable to > non-script enabled browsers. I've just started at a new web design shop and > many of the designers there don't even know about text only browsers and as > such don't always design their sites to degrade gracefully. I hope to > educate my new co-workers. > Why not just encourage them, to the point where more computing power than would put man on the moon many times over is minimally essential to read a web page? Surely, there must be some way to exploit this insanity? Or is it just part of the growing technological gap? ++L