Re: LYNX-DEV don't give a damn?

[David Combs]

> On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Carl Reimann wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps we should make it a netiquette issue. Nearly everybody feels
> > strongly that mailing lists should not be spammed. 
> 
> An idea that has come up locally is to have a function built in to lynx
> and bound (at least optionally) to a single keystroke that would allow 
> any user to generate a comment on the current URL (directed at doc owner 
> if known, but at address@hidden if not) that would politely
> discuss the importance of usability through lynx with references to URLs
> explaining the issue further.
> 
> Any site could compile in this feature and advertise it to their users
> if they wished to be "activists" in this area.
> 
> If there is come level of agreement with this, I will see about getting 
> it implemented and distributed to this list.
> 
>   David Trueman,
> 

I'd keep "Lynx" out of it -- we know they "don't
give a damn" about whether lynx can or can not read their
pages.

Rather, appeal to their own self-interest somehow.  Like
that if they screw up the nesting, etc, it will make
adding future NS features harder for them.

And what about a NEW browser from MS or NS or someone else
that isn't as forgiving of errors.  That they'd want
THAT  browser to read their pages OK.

Maybe educational too: point them to web documents that
show common html errors; style documents, etc.  Lots out
there, I think.

Point to some good books, too.

(Especially "How not to write web pages", discussed before
as something that this group could write.)

But "please fix it for us poor Lynx users" probably won't fly.

UNLESS you tie it  into to that BLIND people need it -- that
might work ok.

Just my thoughts.

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