[imp] The PIMP

[Magnus Stenman]

Well, what about all the other modules?

Kindof hard to access them from Pine.

Would be nice with auto-detect, or a checkbox at login that
makes this login text (or non-java) based.


/magnus

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:43:14AM -0700, Brian Dragoo wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Max Kalika wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:
> > 
> > > If someone wants to put in the time to make lynx work nicely, I'll support
> > > you, but ... I don't use lynx much. So I don't need it - I have much bigger
> > > itches to scratch.
> > 
> > And if someone on a system with access to lynx, it is a good bet that pine is 
> > accessible as well.
> 
> 
> This is an excellent point; quite worth reiterating whenever this
> discussion comes up.  I'm all for being aware of simplicity and
> compatiblity (even with lynx) when designing websites, but that cannot be
> a simple dogmatic mantra.  There is no point in having web-based e-mail
> accessible to a text-only browser for exactly the reason that Mr. Kalika
> pointed out above, namely that mutt, pine, elm, and (hell) even mail are
> likely to be available to anyone that might be browsing text-only.  If
> anyone can think of a real reason to remain lynx-compatible in IMP, I'd be
> happy to change my position on this.
> 
> My general point is this: in the often dogmatic GNU/*NIX/OSS community,
> it's important to consider individual cases (like this) carefully, and
> make sure that our dogmas *really* apply.  Here, I think it (the dogma of
> hyper-compatibility with everything right down to lynx) loses its
> applicability.
> 
> Brian Dragoo
> TAC
> 
> 
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