Re: The first graphical

[brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack)]

 Spec@vax2.Concordia.Ca couldn't help but dribble:

 SCC(|     I tend to have the same feelings about unneccesary fluff
     | (fancy backdrops, borders, those annoying animated ads, etc) but
     | these days a lot of pages are text-browser unfriendly. Some even
     | flat out refuse to continue if your not running Netscape or

Funny thing happened to me the other day on that note...

Was visiting United Media's Dilbert site on a friend's win95-486 and
there's this demo for a game.  When you click the info icon, Scott
Adams' voice says "Elbonian Airlines, it's the only way to fly."  I
wanted that *real* bad, but could not get Netscape 4.04 to capture the
sound.  Bugged me.  So I wrote down the location of that page
(www.dreamworksgames.com/games/dilbert/.....) and went to it on my //GS
with Lynx -- and the only thing the page would let me do is download
the sound.  :) :)    ====

You are right about the text-browser-unfriendly places, those suck.  I
was trying to get ticket info last year from a local theatre's website
and it was a one of those "Go bugger yourself" messages as the opening
screen.  Ahh, but viewing the HTML itself (the "\" command) I could see
what the links were so I used the Go To command to get into them and so
despite the crappy reception at the front door I did manage to get past
the sentry to the vault.  :)
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 * 2qwk! 2.04 * "You go online, you get techno-weenievision." - J.Harris
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