Exeter Chess Club Coaching PAGE DESIGN

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	A page for people interested in teaching and learning about chess [whatever gimmicky proprietary browser they use]

Unenhanced for Proprietary Browsers: i.e. no frames, huge graphics, jiggling GIFs, "portable" applets, FONT adjustments, clickable maps, garish backgrounds, or any other unnecessary bandwidth-wasting devices which make using a proprietary graphical browser more slow and more unpleasant than using a text-only browser. These all seem to me:

1. to celebrate form over content
2. to be opposed to the original idea of HTML/WWW by excluding users without particular software or hardware, and in any event
3. make browsing a pain: nothing more irritating than zipping into a new site to meet:

   "You will need a gimmick-enabled browser, such as Micro$oft Internet Exploiter 7.4 or Nerdscape Complicator 3.2 to use this site [and even then you'll need to download some painfully slow add-on software from some other site (if it's up).]"

All those expensive bitmaps and graphic buttons are barely readable on my 1280x1024 screen when I turn image loading on.

If you are a Web author please bear in mind speeding surfers with image loading turned OFF, LYNX users, blind users of screenreaders, slow machines and connections in schools and in the developing world, etc., etc.. Please use ALT= elements in image tags, and provide information in text as well as graphics. screen

  [I know some people love progress more than I do; chacun à son gout]

  Yours sincerely,
Ned Ludd
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Dr. Dave

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