Re: NIU Homepages and HTML to use

Eric Behr (behr@math.niu.edu)
Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:26:28 -0500 (CDT)

jeff nuckles:
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>There shouldn't be a monochrome monitor anywhere near the www and its silly

Oh, boy, now I have to throw away our 40 or so Sparcs with 1152x900 b&w
screens :-)

>for anyone to think that the world wide web should be designed for optimal
>veiwing on monochrome monitors, 16 colors is hard enough to deal with. I

I'm not arguing that. I'm simply saying that certain frills put into
Netscape make life harder for some people.

>think you'd be better off using a text only browser like lynx, rather than
>torchuring yourself with a graphical browser and that kind of monior.

I'm sorry, but we are apparently on different wavelengths here. I am not
torturing myself, I actually prefer the monochrome screen for most things
I do. And most Web pages displayed on it are just fine. Suggesting that I
use lynx is quite funny...

>The 2.0b1 version of Netscape now handles subscripts. Don't remember what

Well, yes, I suppose it does; so now how about a definite integral? or a
little 2x2 matrix with fractions in it? You see the point. That's like
using a simple word processor with a limited symbol font and limited
formatting capability to do serious technical typesetting.

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