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Without coming across rude (I'm genuinely interested). Do people actually develop/design sites for text-only browsers? I thought that stopped happening over a d
by jayflux 13y ago
Without coming across rude (I'm genuinely interested). Do people actually develop/design sites for text-only browsers?
I thought that stopped happening over a decade ago.
- kyllo 13y agoSpecifically for text-only browsers? Probably not. But there are still people who enjoy the minimalist experience of a text-only browser, particularly for the speed, ease of reading, and keyboard control--not having to move the mouse and click on stuff. Plus they're more accessible to the blind. And they're often used for browser automation and web crawling / scraping code. Essentially all you need to do in order to not break the experience for text-only users, is to have your server generate a sane HTML document in the absence of JS and CSS. It's generally not that hard, unless your site is a single-page app where everything is in a client-side Javascript framework. In that case you would actually need to build two separate sites, and most devs probably aren't going to bother since text-only users are a low single digit percentage of internet users as a whole.
- DArcMattr 13y agoIf your site functions in Lynx, then your site will be crawlable by webspiders. I check that a site is functional that way before I publish it.