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Hello Maurice - 

CA>> With the WWW top-heavy with graphics 'smaller and faster'
CA>> is good. 

MK> It can be. Certainly items worthy of consideration when
MK> assessing browsers. 

CA>> I'm not seeing what you are seeing but I run in 32 bit
CA>> True Color here. 

MK> Depends but in the case of X it is set to 24-bit graphics
MK> which I believe is True Colour. I am under the impression
MK> that 32-bit is classed as Infinite Colours. I could be
MK> wrong. Framebuffers on the console default to 16-bit but
MK> with the Matrox card I can change resolutions and bits on
MK> the fly. Truly awesome. It dazzles the locals everytime
MK> they see it. They find it unbelievable what their eyes are
MK> seeing and say so after their initial shock wears off. I
MK> like it too. 

I like what I'm using but it has caused me to overshoot my
'target' a few times using graphics that look terrible on
webpages when viewed on monitors at 16 bit settings. 

CA>> The quality seems the same (to me) so I opt for speed. :-) 

MK> If you check out tables sometimes Opera shows gaps where
MK> other browsers don't. At least this is true for the Linux
MK> version. I  have no idea about the Windows version. However
MK> if I lived on a GUI I might consider this a minor
MK> inconvenience and also opt for speed. Luckily that isn't an
MK> issue here. 

I present my webpages for others to use. If they prefer
graphics I give them graphics but I don't ignore the text-only
browsers and do try to maintain 'anybrowser' pages. No one has
complained so far. :-) 

CA>> Are you aware of LINKS(2) that can do either graphical or
CA>> text-only browsing? 

MK> Yep. The framebuffer graphics are nice but still need work.
MK> I still mostly use text mode and am happy to say it is an
MK> option. About 99.9% of the browsing I do is in text mode so
MK> it works out  for me. Tables and frames work well in text
MK> mode, better then graphical mode in my humble opinion. If I
MK> need graphics it is nice that they're there. Not a really
MK> big issue though but fun to play with every once and awhile. 

I only have the LINKS that will render individual graphics and
was surprised to find that there is a version that can be
totally graphical. 

Will wonders never cease? :-) 

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