I'm curious what the current demographic/usage cases for text browsers are. I'm not asking this to undercut the argument, but as a developer hoping to improve the Wikipedia experience for as many users as possible. It's my understanding that blind users no longer use text browsers, but instead use screen readers with regular browsers (based on my one conversation with a blind Wikimedian). Who are the people using text browsers and why? What is the current text browsing experience like on Wikipedia? Do we serve the mobile version to text browsers or the regular version of the site? Is Lynx still the most popular text browser?
Sorry for my ignorance on this subject.
Ryan Kaldari
On 1/17/12 11:48 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
Ha, the blackout is a javascript powered blackout. No reason to bother text browser users, they won't notice the disruption in the first place!
Please don't remove $wgSiteNotice from Mediawiki. It's the only way we http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family administrators can with one edit to LocalSettings.php put a notice on our many wikis, without editing each MediaWiki:Sitenotice etc. database changing operations.
DG> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm That table looks horrible in text browsers.
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