[NTLUG:Discuss] Javascript and CSS == Usable WWW browser? was Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] BrowseX (FAST, small browser) is outinBETA!!

[Buddy Brannan]

Speaking as one of those people with a disability (I'm blind) that still
uses, and in fact likes, lynx, I have to echo what Chris says here re:
gratuitous Javascript. Rarely have I seen Javascript used in such a manner
that some other method couldn't have been used. For example, it appears
(though I could be wrong of course) that a lot of sites are using
Javascripted submit buttons on forms. (Even more annoying are those forms
with the submit buttons embedded into the drop-down list, which means you
can't get to it in Lynx at all.) Let's see. Javscript submit buttons, and
then those wonderful links that basically their only function in life seems
to be to open something in a separate browser or window. (For instance,
live365's launching of Winamp or some other MP3 player to play a streaming
MP3 station, or something similar with RealAudio sites.) There's absolutely
no reason that forms can't be made with regular HTML form submit buttons or
something. To make a page completely dependent on something like Javascript
definitely makes my life more difficult, and that of other PWD's. If
another option is not provided on a specific site and I can get the service
elsewhere, I will generally do so...and that means that the site with the
gratuitous Javascript doesn't get my business if the Javascript is used in
such a manner as to block my ability to use the site effectively. 

So anyway, yay for lynx! It's much nicer to read in Lynx than have to
reboot into Windoz and read out of Internot Exploiter. 

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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV
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Voice mail: 877-791-5298
All opinions are all mine!