Re: LYNX-DEV Internal MIME types

[Scott McGee (Personal)]

Klaus writes:

>                Now, today there are two
>dimensions, for most Web pages: images and ALT text.  Most people don't
>seem to care about the ALT TEXT, although that should take much less
>effort to provide than sophisticated images.  So what makes you think
>that, if there are many more dimensions to fill, people would care any
>more than they do now, about those things that are not as flashy, not as
>new as the latest toy?

Indeed, there is a growing third catagory, "output from ??" that produces
what looks like text, but is invisible or unavailible to text browsers or
printers. Things like Java and JavaScript. Authors who use these often 
produce a (NS or IE) rendered page of plain text, but thier pages are not
at all viewable with Lynx. I suspect that several other contenders for
additional catagories are out there such as audio/video, animated graphics,
other "bleeding edge" technologies, that will likewise pay no heed to the
fact that "older technology" can't access their message and provide no
alternates. I guess that at least audio should be usable to the visually
impaired, if they can access it. Will video or animation ever even include
the techological equivelant of closed captioning? Likely not.

Scott

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