From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 7 11:09:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA06903 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:09:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA06898; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:09:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA03559; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:03:35 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606071803.LAA03559@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: New "netscaped" FreeBSD web pages at http://www.freebsd.org/~mpcd To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:03:34 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org, mpcd@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <24763.834136776@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 7, 96 01:39:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > These are the proposed "netscape enhanced" pages for those browsers > (and comlinks) capable of dealing with a fancier view of things. The > text mode interface isn't going away, folks, so don't all you lynx > people get yourselves into a knot. This is just another way of > looking at the FreeBSD home page for those users who go in for that > sort of thing, and it'll either auto-select by browser or be chained > off of http://www.freebsd.org through a "netscape enhanced!" button or > something. We haven't worked that out yet. > > Pages courtesy of Visual Internet Publishing, who will of course get > some free advertising out of this deal. :-) > > Feedback can and should be sent to Duffy Penski . These pages have a *much* higher production value than the onces which are "Lynx-friendly"! Does Apache support server-side scripting? It seems that you could do automatic browser capability detection, and generate pages on the basis of capability from a common source/database. At worst, there should be a high/low/no graphics page as the initial intercept, if browser capability based redirects can't work (ie: if there is no server-side scripting). These things need to be the default for most people connecting to the site! Good job on the pages! (what's the text input field with no buttons or anything associated with it???). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.