LynxMustDie

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For years, those who wish to combat the forces of graphical browsers have put LynxBrowser as their standard. However, there's things that web designers do that are meant to make a site more readable. Site layout with tables, with a bar going down the left-hand side makes perfect sense to a graphical browser but leaves a ton of identical stuff on the top of every lynx page. So use a TextBrowser that understands tables.

I'm using "links" to edit this page - seems to be generally full-featured for terminal based application, and doesn't have some of the ugly awkwardness of "lynx".

It would do everyone well to be aware that a population of their potential userbase is visually impaired and thus needs attention to detail of presentation for tools like screen readers. emv

Also, for those who don't believe the blind use the web (and they do), there's a growing segment that tries to browse the web from their CellPhone, BlackBerry?, or other Internet-connected tiny-screen devices. There's no good excuse for web design that prevents these kinds of devices from rendering the page content, but far too many sites are useless when rendered on such a device.

Also see http://diveintoaccessibility.org/

These days, CascadingStyleSheets largely obviate this worry, allowing one great freedom in placing visual elements on a graphical browser without requiring tables and other non-LynxFriendly techniques. Perhaps we no longer need to insist that LynxMustDie? -- ChrisPurcell

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