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Hello Tom - 

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TW> Wel lthere are a LOT of Web sites that cannot be browsed in
TW> Text Only. Some not worth bothering with but a lot of them
TW> are useful. As an Example my local Newspaper the "San Diego
TW> Union Tribune", affectionatly nicknamed the Union Buffon
TW> becasue of their Head in the Sand outlook, is not
TW> navagatable at all with a text Mode browser. 

It does seem odd when a communications medium that is normally
printed using text cannot produce a text-only version of a
webpage. At least it seems odd to me. 

I have tried to maintain text-only compatibility at my 'tech'
webpages from the begining. It's not that difficult, you just
avoid the "bells and whistles" and a few nonessentials. 

As one who tries to remain aware of changes to web code I read
the w3c (www.w3.org) about new proposed 'standards' and submit
my finished webpages to their automated 'validator' etc. It's
not a religion with me to follow their suggestions but I try. 

Funny part is while reading their guidelines you find
contradictions where they are recommending the use of code I
know for a fact will break older browsers. Even funnier is that
they claim to use the Amaya browser which is usually not
uptodate and able to function properly with the w3c's own code. 

At one time the "browser wars" between Microsoft and Netscape
produced a jumble of half-baked ideas and incompatible webpages
but even the committee that is supposed to be trying to make
all of this into 'standards' seems confused quite often. 

I read something like 12 pages of nonsense about how the
webpage codes should be changed to allow very specific font
sizes to be used. This guy was a nut! 

If you want to get an idea just how mixed up the people
involved in webpage code making recommendations to programmers
of browsers can actually be spend some time reading the w3c
website pages. ;-) 

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