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Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 16:26:04 +0100
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From: Bert Van Kets <bert@vankets.com>
Subject: Re: [News] Interesting article: Web Access Disabled by '90s
  Design
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When I find the time I'll check it out.
As suggested here today, moving the images to CSS can be a solution.

Bert

At 15:42 9/11/2002 +0100, you wrote:

>Bert Van Kets wrote:
>>Hmmm, I don't get the problem.  The Forrest skin looks super with the 
>>images turned off.  Why would these images bother these people?
>>Check the site with Lynx or Opera with the images turned off (press g 
>>when viewing the site).
>>If the images of the skin bother people, what about images in the content 
>>itself?  Would we all need to build sites without images?
>
>Specifically, it has been said that the site is ugly when seen in the 
>"links" text browser (not lynx, in that it's ok).
>
>This will prevent the skin to be used generally at Apache.
>
>If we can get round this it would be great :-)
>
>>Bert
>>
>>At 12:44 9/11/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>>
>>>Web Access Disabled by '90s Design
>>>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,662475,00.asp
>>>
>>>The gifs in our interface used to space and to add the rounded edges are
>>>bugging some of our users; what do you think we should do?
>>>
>>>1) remove them all
>>>2) provide a link similar to the pdf one for a more simple-layout version
>>>
>>>I go with 2)
>>>
>>>--
>>>Nicola Ken Barozzi                   nicolaken@apache.org
>>>             - verba volant, scripta manent -
>>>    (discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>
>--
>Nicola Ken Barozzi                   nicolaken@apache.org
>             - verba volant, scripta manent -
>    (discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
>---------------------------------------------------------------------