Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/NoStyle Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/NoStyle?atomcommentsDWiki2007-04-13T10:58:09ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/NoStyle.From 70.68.38.175 on /blog/web/NoStyletag:CSpace:blog/web/NoStyle:6916390511f0f12357958756334c922addc4796cFrom 70.68.38.175<div class="wikitext"><p>I really like your blog. I commented
on this thread because your website works very
well with my text-based browser of choice, Edbrowse. It
also is true (by the name) that it's based off of
/bin/ed - another one of my indispencible tools. The author of edbrowse
is one of the people who makes unix just that bit more usable with the amazing
growth of graphical tools. I was just
experimenting with Solaris and the zfs commands, and realized that the stupid thing
used indentation to show the links between everything - which my screen reader didn't
pick up on. Right now, these things usually read from top to bottom,
left to right,
with no consideration to the output - at least in a terminal. In windows with
Internet Explorer, it renders the page into a more
useable form - but so does edbrowse, so it's mostly even.</p>
<p>Going back to website design, increasingly I notice javascript, flash, or something else
that causes headaches. Every time, under Windows at least,
my screen reader finds a flash movie, it puts it in its rendition of the page -
between "flash movie start" and "flash movie end" tags. There is
absolutely nothing that I want out of a flash movie, and it + the screen reader
can bring a reasonably powerful 2.4-GHZ P4 to considerable slowness. This
includes sites such as Ebay - which for some strange reason does that as well - too much</p>
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javascript, I suppose.
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<p>I'm not sure if you were aware of all this; I'm just posting what I
consider to be interesting and potentially useful to someone.
- Tyler
<a href="http://allinaccess.com">http://allinaccess.com</a></p>
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