xwindows

David Poehlman poehlman1 at comcast.net
Fri May 17 07:09:23 EDT 2002


one could wish for a lynx like ie. if ie were like lynx we could have
the best of both worlds and drop the security nonsense.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: xwindows



Heav en forefiend.

I like lynx just as it is. I would hate to think it would ever
behave like Internet Explorer., That would be brain dead.

Now, one can wish for javascript support without emmulating IE.
Those two are not the same thing.

On Wed, 15 May 2002 jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:

> Hi,
> Well, there isn't anything to prevent someone re-writing lynx in such
a
> way that it would function the same as internet explorer in WINDOWS.
> Except that it would be a lot of work of course.  I agree, Internet
> Exploder will access more things than lynx.  We can only hope that
> Netscrape will work better under Gnome than it does under WINDOWS.
>
>      Jim Wantz WB0TFK
> On Tue,
> 14 May 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
> > Also, you have to remember that just because we have access to a gui
doesn't
> > mean it's going to be easy. How many times have i heard blind
windowws users
> > complain that they did something but can't undo it or duplicate it
because
> > they're not sure how they did it in the first place. Having a screen
reader that
> > really allows you to sort out where you are and what you are
changing or are
> > about to change would be vital.
> > My biggest concern for linux right now isn't gui per se; my biggest
concern is
> > Internet accessibility. My main reason for being interested in
Xwindows at all
> > is the hope of being able eventually to use a browser that will
allow me to
> > access Internet sites that I cannot now access. I don't know if that
is a
> > realistic hope, but that is frankly my main concern.
> >
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Janina Sajka, Director
Technology Research and Development
Governmental Relations Group
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org


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