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Anyone browsed using a textual web browser?

Postby BenoitRen » Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:49 pm

I'm using Lynx 2.8.2 to browse Phantasy Star Cave (but not to type this message) in order to see what I can improve. The site is looking fine so far. The message board is a trainwreck, though. I haven't tried my board skin yet.
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Postby Zucca » Fri Aug 27, 2010 5:34 pm

I use links to browse PS Cave sometimes. I guess eLinks is better, but I like to take advantage the graphical side of it sometimes to test my own pages.
I have also lynx installed.
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Postby BenoitRen » Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:52 pm

How was your experience browsing PS Cave with Links?

Since my last post I've seen a lot of instances where the alternate text for an image was inappropriate. But I think overall the site does well in textual mode.
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Postby Zucca » Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:29 pm

BenoitRen wrote:How was your experience browsing PS Cave with Links?

Since my last post I've seen a lot of instances where the alternate text for an image was inappropriate. But I think overall the site does well in textual mode.
Quite well except for these forums.
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Postby BenoitRen » Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:58 pm

Using Lynx now to browse the message board using my skin. The verdict: much better than the default skin, but still awkward to browse. It's obvious that while I did try to apply semantics, I mostly copied phpBB's default design, which doesn't make much sense.

I must say that I don't like how Lynx handles tables. There's no effort to align anything, which makes reading one confusing. A good example is the board index. You see a title, two seemingly random numbers, and a note about the latest post on each row.
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Postby Wing-0 » Sun Aug 29, 2010 3:24 am

What manner of devilcraft be a text based browser?
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Postby Zucca » Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:50 am

WING-0 wrote:What manner of devilcraft be a text based browser?
Just imagine a web browser in DOS.
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