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Re: lynx-dev Anyone seen OpenDesk.com ?
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Janina Sajka |
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Re: lynx-dev Anyone seen OpenDesk.com ? |
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Tue, 9 Nov 1999 12:24:42 -0500 (EST) |
It rather reminds me of the old days of BBS -- except that it's on a
IP network.
I will have to check it out more, because it seemed reasonably friendly to
my non-standard, blind user synthetic-speech based screen access
technology. Not sure why I care yet, though.
Janina Sajka, Director
Information Systems Research & Development
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
address@hidden
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> OpenDesk.com is a new internet portal service which will be offering
> email, bookmark, address book, calendaring, etc. on a central server,
> for free. It is open source, so people can contribute, check out the
> code, etc.
>
> Currently, it claims it works on 'any 4.0 browser'. Sigh - do we have
> to go to lynx 4.0 before they let us 'in' ? <sad smile>... Open Source
> tied to closed source Internet Explorer and the currently closed source
> Netscape Communicator I guess. Sure there is the continuing promise
> that some day Netscape will truly release an 'open source' version.
> I'm not going to try to hold my breath until then...
> --
> Larry W. Virden <URL: mailto:address@hidden>
> <URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/> <*> O-
> Unless explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should
> be construed as representing my employer's opinions.
> -><-
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