Aaron That is great I just did it with Google on Firefox and it worked -- it is text only, although not plain text in the strictest sense
I love it! ann Aaron Reynolds wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > > hmmm are you saying that from the comfort of my dial up > > connection I can make a browser that reads in text format > > only when I'm , say, I'm researching stuff on Google or > > Yahoo? that would be great. > > Yes -- basically, there are other forms of the internet besides what > you get in a regular computer web browser. People can surf the > internet on their phones, or like me on a little computer that goes in > my pocket and is supposedly an organizer. To make it easier for > phone/organizer people to surf the internet, a lot of sites have > alternate versions that are simple, low bandwidth, simple layout, look > good on small screens and are very fast. > > If you can find a browser for your computer that reads these "mobile" > versions instead, you'd probably be really happy. > > Now, because the websites are "smart", they recognize what kind of > browser you're using and direct you automatically. So when I'm on my > computer and go to google.com, I get regular Google. If I'm on my > Palm, I get redirected to google.com/palm. Sometimes you can fake them > out, by manually entering google.com/palm into your computer's browser > (which works -- click on the Google News link to see what the mobile > version of the site is like), but in the case of Yahoo!, they wonder > why you want to look at that "crappy" version when you could see the > whiz-bang version, so they redirect you back to the regular page. > > So what you need is the kind of internet browser that guys building > mobile sites would use to check the sites and make sure they look okay. > Some smart web-building people can probably tell you if such a thing > exists. > > -Aaron > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
