On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:58:01PM -0500, Terri Oda wrote: > I don't know... I think rendering email addresses into pictures (say .png > instead of .gif, but to A. User it makes no difference as long as it's read > by the browser) is hardly something the average user can't > understand. When you phone up tech support and they tell you to go to a > web page, it's not like the spoken link is clickable. I'd say most people > are quite capable of reading something and typing it out manually if > clicking it doesn't work, otherwise there'd be no success in printing > addresses in print ads, on T-shirts, etc. and I know I've seen plenty of > lower-tech users type in urls from magazines. Sure, it's a hoop to jump > through, but I wouldn't say that it's out of reach for anyone but geeks! > > Of course, if you're talking about the javascript, that's something else > entirely.
Well, neither the JavaScript *nor* the picture are going to do me much good on the two browsers I use most often: Lynx 2.8.3 in a konsole window... and GoWeb 6 on my Palm/Minstrel handheld. The former may not be especially mainstream, but anyone who ignores the latter category (not to mention my blind friend's screen reader) does so at their peril. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "If you don't have a dream; how're you gonna have a dream come true?" -- Captain Sensible, The Damned (from South Pacific's "Happy Talk") _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
