Re: [ANN] Tresure Chest Project

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5hai2q$ele@dove.qut.edu.au>,
Willie Yeo <yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au> wrote:
>: P.S.  Properly written HTML code can include Lynx support, if you want to
>: bother that is.  See Nathan's site for an example of a properly
>: implemented website.

>	Nathan's site is Nathan's. He's probably better at writing HTML 
>then I do.

   Better? From a technical standpoint, my web pages are definitely
not up to date with all the 'updates' to HTML (and definitely NOT the
stupid and browser-specific stuff link <blink> [1]) that have been
either foisted on the public unilaterally by Netscrape and/or Internet
Exploder. 

   I use a *very* limited set of tags, and I do it consistently.  [Use
'View Source' on my web pages to see precisely how I do any of the stuff
on my pages, save the web counter, which I wrote in C] I also edit the
html pages in a *text* editor, no GUI or other stuff. Because I use
the markups so sparingly, the pages are quite readable even in the html
source format, which is far more than I can say for the output of most
GUI editor.

   The 'Viewable on a REAL Apple II' icon I have on the bottom of my
pages is there for a reason: I am making sure that my web pages are
readable on precisely those machines that I'm supporting, with as
little loss as possible. I check my pages against Lynx 2.6 and
Netscrape 3 to make sure that they're readable on Apple IIs, as well
as looking decent in a graphical browser.

   It's also interesting now how there's somewhat of a public backlash
against web pages that take 40 minutes to download over a modem. [Some
PC Magazine or PC World a few months ago had a whole section on this.]
The web may be great for multimedia, but if you're outside what your
audience's patience or technological limits are, they're not going to
bother with your pages. 

Nathan Mates

[1] Ok, I do use <blink> on one page, where it's somewhat relevant and
just another level of attention getting.
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