> I know some of the folks on this list think that if you can't visit a site > with lynx it's not worth it, which is OK for some people. Reality is that > people like eye-candy, and web designers have to deliver so they make > trade-offs (consciously or not) about view ability and functionality. >
I won't go so far to say that all sites must be Lynx friendly, but it seems to me that more and more web sites use java-script or Flash animations not to make the web experience more interesting but to annoy the crap out of everyone with pop-over/under ads, stupid cursor tricks and such like. I used to have scripting disabled for security reasons. But even if scripting was guaranteed one-hundred percent safe I'd still leave it disabled to stop this sort of carry on. Now to be fair to most web designers it seems they at least think they are being cross-platform (using java-script rather than ActiveX) but I guess this is just something that isn't taught in web designer school. It sounds to me like there is a market out there for a "Designing Cross-Browser Web Sites for Dummies" book. I think with the right marketing it would be a best seller. Kerry.
