Re: how to install this?

From: Darrell Stec (darrell_stec_at_webpagesorcery.com)
Date: 04/06/05 

Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 01:36:32 -0400

After serious contemplation, on or about Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:27 pm
knathan@project54.com wrote:

> On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:24:45 -0400
> Darrell Stec <darrell_stec@webpagesorcery.com> wrote:
>
>> > Kevin Nathan wrote:
>> > I detest webpages with lots of graphics, videos, sounds, etc. If I
>> > can't get info from a site with lynx, then it's not worth
>> > bookmarking, IMNSHO. But others like all the eye-candy, and they're
>> > welcome to it! ;-)
>> >
>>
>> I recently read a few sites on the Wright Brothers and other early
>> inventors' airplane engineering. Neither lynx or links helped with
>> any of the numerous diagrams or pictures.
>>
>
> And just what relevance does that have to do with what I said? Did I
> say lynx, et al., *would* help with diagrams or pictures?
>
>
>> The "I only use text" attitude seems so elitist and stultifying.
>
> Exactly *where* did I say "I only use text"? You might want to brush up
> on your reading skills. (See my quote at top of this msg.)
>
>
>> In many cases "a picture is worth a thousand words" is still true.
>
> I couldn't agree more. I never said otherwise.
>
>
>> I
>> believe that if Tim Benards Lee could have had pictures on the early
>> Internet, he would have. Primitive is not necessarily better.
>>
>
> If you're going to criticize what I said, please limit it to what I
> *wrote*, and *not* what you wildly imagined I _might_ have meant. Again,
> just WTF are you getting 'primitive' from in my msg?
>
>
>> Would NASA forego pictures in favor of a text readout of the Mars
>> exploration?
>>
>
> I can get good info from the NASA website, and many others, with
> lynx/links/w3m. If I need to see the pics, I use a browser that allows
> that (such as w3m, opera, etc.). What I *don't* need, when I'm looking
> for specific information, is to have to wade through *huge* graphics
> pages, Flash-crap and JavaScript-everything (sometimes even with
> massive sound files, as well). Which is basically what I said in my
> original msg, just not is so many words -- assuming most people would
> understand what I said and not find left-field interpretations of it.
>
> Those that *like* all that _useless_ eye candy are welcome to it. I
> rather prefer:
>
> http://www.anybrowser.org/
>
>
Perhaps your writing skills need a brush up? You said, "If I can't get info
from a site with lynx, then it's not worth bookmarking, IMNSHO." That
would indicate any site that has graphics, i.e. diagrams, is not worth
bookmarking. You are now backtracking. I thought you might.

And indeed, Lynx is primitive compared to browsers that can render graphics. 

-- 
Later,
Darrell Stec      darstec@neo.rr.com
Webpage Sorcery
http://webpagesorcery.com
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