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Hi,

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that a good web site is
measured by contents and not by graphical gimmics (that take long to load
anyway). I'd rather prefer you design a site with good content that also
happens to load under lynx than making a site full of gimmics and pictures
that is not only difficult to navigate but contains little to no
information. There is a very good reason to use lynx instaed of graphical
browsers: Even on a fast machine lynx will load 10-100 times faster than
Netscape 4 and many times I just want to look up something small on a page
without loading 100k of pictures. If you also take into consideration that
still most people are not connected to the internet by a fast connection,
transfer speed is still crucial for a good site.

Please keep the site simple and good and compatible.

Schlomo

On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Ofer Maor wrote:

> Hi Yaron,
> 
> 
> >
> >There was a system crash and there were no backups. It's written there
> >somewhere.
> 
> 
> Remind me to shoot ira, first time I meet him
> MA ZE LO HAYA GIBUY! argh
> 
> 
> >I dunno. I really don't remember there being that much graphics -
> >definetly not original graphics.
> >
> 
> not "that much" - but still - it was grahpically appealing.
> 
> >Um, they don't have that much graphics there. But if there's one thing I
> >can't STAND it's a split background image - those things NEVER look the
> >same on every browser, and it's very important to me that our site be
> >entirely readable by everyone under every browser.
> 
> >Look at any of the pages under our site with Netscape, Mosaic, Opera,
> >Lynx, Exploder, whatever - it will basically look the same in _every_
> >browser! The same basic layout, at least (obviously no graphics in lynx
> >and no centering in Mosaic). Look at http://www.linux.org in lynx.
> >Different site.
> 
> 
> look - the thing is simple. if you gonna attempt having your site be supported
> by ALL browser, you will have a site that looks like it was written in 95....
> that's about all that ALL browsers support. if you want to use advanced
> technology (which I believe you do, or at least, most people do, and it makes
> it attractive), u have to give up that backwards compatibility. HTML 3.0,
> frames, tables, JAVA Scripts, etc - are all wonderfull technologicall
> advancments, supported by over 95% of the browsers (distribution wise) - e.g.
> Netscape3+ and IE3+. if you gonna insist that Web Sufer 3.1, lynx, and some
> other browsers that are used by 2 users, u are NOT gonna have a good looking
> site.
> and a nice soothing background is the ABC of making a page that will look
> nice, and not boring white. I wouldn't really mind what you do with YOUR site,
> but since you are holding the domain of all the israeli linux user group, I
> think all the israeli linux user group should decide on this issue.
> 
> >
> >Although I am maintaining the site. contributions are more than welcome.
> >If you feel any part of the site should look diffrently, sitting there and
> >saying "I don't like it" will NOT help. Instead, make it.
> 
> 
> well - I don't have much time, but in any case - even if I will try
> contributing to it, it will be only after a few thigns will be decided upon.
> 
> >That said, I won't put things _I_ don't like up instead of what's already
> 
> 
> www.linux.org.il is not YOUR site. it's OUR (ILUG) site. and you shouldn't
> forget it!
> 
> Ofer.
> 
> 
> 
>