OpenEuphoria

Re: the FAQ

• Posted by bonn ortloff <kc7yrh at HOTMAIL.COM> Aug 03, 1998
• 583 views

>Date:         Mon, 3 Aug 1998 11:34:27 +0530
>Reply-To:     Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
<EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
>From:         "Robert J. Zydenbos" <zydenbos at BLR.VSNL.NET.IN>
>Subject:      the FAQ
>To:           EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
>
>Buddy Hyllberg <budmeister1 at JUNO.COM> wrote:
>
>> Really, the whole purpose of this FAQ is to give information, not
dazzle
>> people with techno-wizardry (not!) and eye~candy. And everybody knows
>> that frames & aniGIFs take longer to load than 1-2 small GIFs & text.
>
>> If I had a 486/8Mb I would stick with Lynx :)
>
>> But what I do mostly involves
>> searching for information, so I don't like glitz ;)
>
>If I may put in a word about the proposed FAQ:
>
>Yes! *Please don't* use a lot of fancy graphics and so on. I know my
>situation won't be like that of the majority, but it's like this:
>I work in India, where phone lines are poor, where the internet
>provider is whimsical, where I can't reach high line speeds, and where
>I still am not using a GUI browser because my provider insists that
>I should use Win95 and gives me only software settings for W95
>software which I don't know how to fit into the software which I do
>have.
>
>So I use plain DOS and Lynx on the provider's system, to get some
>speed on my 486 and because it really works. This also means that
>there are numerous web sites which tell me *nothing*, because *all*
>the information is given in graphical form, which I can't read.
>
>Maybe there are others out there in a situation similar to mine?
>
>RZ
>
>
>

... and pplz like U iz exactly why I will build a text site. (Gimme the
word, Irv)

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