Re: BARUDA

[Toby Reiter <str4552@OBERLIN.EDU>]

On 12 Nov 1996, Nathan Mates wrote:
> I don't try and clog up the World Wide Wait
> with useless pictures and blather; contents and usability should be
> first and foremost in every web page designer's mind. Funny, lynx
> excells at just that.
One point that could be made Nathan, is that people have differing views 
about what the web is useful for. Myself, I see the WWW as the place 
where internet can finally become artistic and graphical--therefore, 
graphics, backgrounds, images, movies, and sound are key and should be
used as much as feasible.  Although it may be important to have some 
content (in terms of actual text) it would be extremely boring if this 
was what the majority of the web was like. As I've said before, you have 
a noble communication style, meaning that you appreciate frankness, 
directness, bluntness, and prefer to (read don't) see things as vague or 
ambiguous. Therefore, graphics and other embellisments on a web page 
would seem to you as antithetical to the function of the WWW as a source 
for information, whereas for others it is better used as a place for pure 
entertainment and aesthetic value. Therefore, for them (including me) 
lynx is almost anithetical to the purpose of the WWW. It's all a matter 
of perspective.

Just my two one-yearling lambs with wine libation,
Toby Reiter