Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 14:35:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Mark Habersack <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Caldera's webpages.
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On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:

> > Is it just me, or does everyone have problems with
> > accessing caldera's web pages via LYNX.  I connected to them and
> > the status line said "Read 512 bytes of 3940" or something like
> > that, then "Read 2048...", then went up and up to 
> > "Read 3942 bytes of 3940" and then froze until I hit the Z key to
> > stop it.  Nothing was displayed.  Lynx didn't freeze, just the
> > page download froze.  If you didn't notice, the amount downloaded
> > exceeded the amount listed as the total by 2 bytes.  This
> > happened on ALL caldera's pages that I tried to access and only
> > in Lynx.  I tried Netscape and it worked fine.
> Same here! Even the newest Lynx 2.7 with frame/image map support doesn't 
> work!

Well, I just installed color LYNX 2.7 and I am VERY
IMPRESSED!!!!!!  WOW!!!!!  I think I'll be spending *LESS* time
in Netscape now!  However, the Caldera pages are still needlessly
LYNX unfriendly.

Hey Caldera Webmaster, ever hear of the "ALT" tag?  I've made
pages that are very graphical, but still look great in LYNX.  It
only took a few minutes extra work too.
 
> > I just tried to access the page listed as where the source for OD
> > is, and I got a blank page that said:
> > 
> > [LINK]
> > 
> > And that is it!!!!!!!!!  I'm almost positive that if I look at it
> > in Netscape, it will be full of graphics that take 30 minutes to
> > download.
> exactly.... and when I tried to reach the sources directly, I got the 404 
> error ;-((

Yes, me too.  This has been corrected now though.

> > Please pardon my frustration, but I'm frustrated!  Come on
> > Caldera!  Support text mode!  OpenDOS is text mode!
> Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

Another example would be if Netscape's homepage was LYNX-only and
looked horrible in graphical browsers.  Doesn't make much sense.
I hope that Caldera fixes this problem soon.  (I'm sure that they
will though).



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