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Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com
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Drazen Kacar |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com |
Date: |
Mon, 5 May 1997 03:32:54 +0200 |
Laura Eaves wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 01:28:07 +0200
> > From: Drazen Kacar <address@hidden>
> >...
> > I sometimes do the same thing for Lynx only. Some pages I wrote contained
> > links to ASCII animations, which were made invisible to graphical
> > browsers.
>
> Out of curiosity, how do you make a link invisible to a graphical browser?
> Put up a null or blank picture I suppose...
Yes, usually it's one pixel transparent gif and text in ALT attribute.
It would be much better to generate somewhat different pages on-the-fly,
but that means big trouble with HTTP/1.0 proxies.
Links with ASCII animations should have been visible only if the browser sent
application/x-vt-animation in Accept header. That's not a problem on the
server side (since I usually configure my server with "vi *.c" :) and
it isn't a problem with Lynx either. Mailcap file should contain
application/x-vt-animation; cat %s
If it isn't received, the page would contain normal content and instructions
for adding that line. I didn't do it that way because the page could not
be made cacheable and it was a major concern at the time.
So that little gif was used. Even if the graphical browser didn't support
transparency, single pixel is not very visible.
I know, the mailcap line should actually be something like
application/x-vt-animation; cat %s; test=testvt100
where testvt100 is a program which tests if the terminal accepts VT100
escape sequences.
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- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com, (continued)
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com, Laura Eaves, 1997/05/03
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com, Nelson Henry Eric, 1997/05/04
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com, Scott McGee (Personal), 1997/05/04
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com, Foteos Macrides, 1997/05/04
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com, Laura Eaves, 1997/05/04
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com, Laura Eaves, 1997/05/04
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com, Foteos Macrides, 1997/05/04
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com, Laura Eaves, 1997/05/04
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com, Laura Eaves, 1997/05/04
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com, Foteos Macrides, 1997/05/05
- Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com, Laura Eaves, 1997/05/05