[plug] Job: Web Analyst Programmer

[Bret Busby]

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> 
> Bret Busby wrote:
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> | >   https://wwwforms.murdoch.edu.au/pls/news/NEWSQIT$NITEM.QueryView?P_UNIQUE_KEY1=3079
> [...]
> | The links on that web page, do not work well with lynx....
> 
> They work fine with w3m (although they point to word documents!).  I
> can't get lynx to open the page at all.  Solution: if you have to use
> a text-based browser, use one which doesn't suck.
> 
> Cameron.
> 
> 
> 

lynx opens and displays the web page for the above URL okay. The links 
are a problem.

If it doesn't work with lynx, it was not tested. lynx is not the only 
character based browser.

It the web site was written for MS Word, then that is where the problem 
lies; publishing web documents that are incompatible and that are not 
universally accessible. It is a great problem with too many web sites - 
universal accessibility should the primary feature of web sites that are 
to be read. It is like something that is spawned by .NET - only 
accessible with Internet Destroyer.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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