Re: LYNX-DEV You'll love "progress"...

[Jason F. McBrayer]

>>>>> "WJ" == Webmaster Jim <address@hidden> writes:

WJ> On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 11:30:11PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
>> 980317 Filip G wrote: 
>> > Geez... I really wonder how much they paid for this page:
>> > http://www.ford.com/us/index2.html

>> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> : should Lynx be trying to read it?
>> but also, all the JS is enclosed in  <---  ---> ,
>> so their hi-tech page is a blank anyway ... 

WJ> They've designed for java-only, so users with older browsers, or
WJ> text-only connections such as Lynx, are elimianted as viewers.

You mean JavaScript; don't forget that JavaScript has nothing to do
with Java.  It's also worth noting that graphical browsers with
javascript turned off will not see anything, either.

It's especially silly, because all this page does is stuff its html
content into a javascript variable and then write out the variable.  I
don't know what they're trying to accomplish here:  client-side
selection of a random image?  I'm sure that could have been done much
less intrusively.

My guess would be that this is the output of some particularly
misguided authoring tool, though normally those identify themselves.
If it was manually done, I bet Fnord payed a lot for it.

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