bare bones design

[Margaret F. Riley]

>I proof my stuff on Lynx, Netscape, Mosaic and Explorer ..but have found
>AOL browser the great common denominator.

What I have been reading in the various web design magazines says that most
of the designers use the AOL browser as the "minimal" design level now.  
However, I did hear that AOL is preparing their new browser for downloading
and it should be closer to the levels we expect.  Mac users will not see it
until
probably fall, and of course everyone will have to download it...

 Since posting our page two
>weeks ago, we have turned up a nasty little problem...lack of telnet
>support is becoming increasingly common.

Lack of telnet and lack of Usenet newsgroups.  It seems most people think
of the web as *the Internet* and the newer ISP's are not providing all of the
bells and whistles needed to get to it all.  Realize too that most public
libraries
cannot provide telnet access and support for users of their public systems,
so I advise web developers to link to what they can support on their own
systems.

Margaret

Margaret F. Riley
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