Optim wrote:
I need some skin which will NOT include any of
the following:
* any HTML more advanced than version 3.2
* Dynamic HTML and DHTML
* HTML Tables
* Any kind of inline Images
* Java / Javascript / ASP / Any kind of scripting
* DIV and SPAN HTML tags
* Preferably no custom HTML colours.
* Any characters not included on a standard
105-key English keyboard. This means: Avoid HTML
entities, Unicode, etc when it is not absolutely
needed.
But you do still need a different character set for Greek.
One reason I dislike DIV tags is they prevent me
from easily copy-pasting Wikipedia articles which
contains inline images. Selecting the article
text selects the image caption, too.
A person with limited or costly bandwidth should have the option to not
download images. A contributor without that option will often be forced
to download the same image over and over again. Images can make an
article much more attractive, but should be expendible.
Just checking my email involves more than 1
megabyte in traffic. Daily checking of email
makes up somewhat more than 30MB in total.
Is that with or without the spam? :-)
And when I think about Africa and other regions
where Internet may be more under-developed, I
think a lynx-friendly skin is a must, considering
that we have an educational mission to fulfil.
I've heard it said that here in Canada we have the highest proportion of
high-speed connection in the world. I would really feel restricted if I
had to have a slower line. When we're spoiled with such dazzling speed,
we lose sight of the difficulties elsewhere. Those of us with high
speed access, are also the ones with easier access to materials that
should be put into Wikipedia; that justifies our continuing to use it.
At the same time many of us who use such connections have no idea about
the technical structures that underly it. I get the impression that
most technical people don't find retrocompatibility to be an interesting
problem when there is so much excitement at the leading edge. Many of
us have old computers in storage that we don't know what to do with. It
would be simplistic to say that Africans would appreciate it if we
shipped all this hardware to them. Efforts would still needed to make
them useful And we still haven't dealt with the challenge of providing
electrical power.
Ec