LYNX-DEV Re: your text-sensitive home page (fwd)

[Philip Webb]

this kind response came fr Sky & Telescope, whose alternative
text-only home page i had praised.  it's the one site i visit regularly
wh has images, eg of Jupiter's moons, i WD like to see.

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> From address@hidden  Sun Dec 15 11:27:28 1996
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> You're welcome!  But, FYI, our server access logs show that 95% of SKY 
> Online's 
> visitors use Netscape, and only a fraction of 1% use Lynx.  Our 
> minimal-graphics 
> pages are aimed more at modem users than at text-only browsers.  Still, we 
> are 
> trying to serve the entire community, so we definitely had Lynx users in mind 
> when we decided to keep images from overwhelming our site.
> 
>      -- Rick Fienberg, Sky Publishing
> 


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