Links the chain

[Janina Sajka]

You choose only one and put it in the user agent field. It's called
"user agent header" in the cat's options menu. I forget where it goes in
links because I don't use that one with masquerading yet.

Richard Wells writes:
> Hi Janina,
> 
> Where do you put these strings?
> 
> Thanks
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Links the chain
> 
> 
> Did your bank let you in? Or did it complain that you're using an old
> browser and offer to help you download something more modern?
> 
> I ask, because this frequently comes up with banks. It's the mis-use of
> http headers that has been the subject today. What you can do is to tell
> a little lie--though we call it masquerading. You "Masquerade" as IE
> with a string like one of the following 3:
> 
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
> 
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;
> .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
> 
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)
> 
> Each of these three examples ould go on one line, of course.
> 
> LARRY SKUTCHAN writes:
> > Thanks, yes all this helps very much.  When I saw that Links the chain 
> > supported Java script, I tried it, and no go.  But, when I downloaded the 
> > latest version, I found that it did, although it still did not get me onto 
> > my banking site properly.  I will have to play with that a little more.
> >
> > They both seem to be very slick and responsive programs.
> >
> > >>> themuso at themuso.com Thursday, October 14, 2004 10:28:13 AM >>>
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 11:56:34PM EST, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > Perhaps someone who's used the chain more than I have can expostulate on
> > > some of the subtelties. But my bottom line is that the chain's
> > > developers have done a pretty good job of adding the kind of blind
> > > friendly functionality that has proven so valuable.
> >
> > There are a few differences indeed. For a start, links the chain has a
> > menu-like system for controlling options etc, which appear in dialog
> > boxes. However, this interface is simplified a lot if one turns on the
> > Braille Terminal mode from the terminal options in the settings menu.
> > For those who want to know how to turn it on, load links, press ALT + S,
> > then T. Press the up arrow 3 times, and press the space bar to check the
> > option. Then simply press enter. Don't forget to save your options by
> > pressing ALT + S, then S.
> >
> > Links the chain supports both frames and tables, although I personally
> > have these turned off, since I am used to reading pages in a linear
> > fashion, although this doesn't always help with data tables, but since I
> > don't really have to read any of these, there is no big deal.
> >
> > Links the chain supports JavaScript. Note that JavaScript is very much
> > different to Java, which is in fact not supported by ANY text browser at
> > all. This is helpful for some dynamic content sites that implement the
> > use of JavaScript a lot, however I have found a few bugs in the links
> > JavaScript code. :)
> >
> > Links the chain does not have very good cookie support however. This is
> > where I need to use lynx the cat for such sites.
> >
> > I hope all this helps
> >
> > Luke
> >
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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040