Posted by Barbara de Zoete on 09/09/05 20:19

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:06:37 GMT, Jonathan N. Little <lws4art@centralva.net>
wrote:

> Barbara de Zoete wrote:
>
> <snip>
>> What effect? I don't see anything happening. (Opera 7.54, WinXP,
>> no scripts, flash, images)
>>
> Or joy!
>

<g> Lots of it. Not distracted by all sorts of eyecandy, I can focus on
_content_ en enjoy that to the full.
Depends on what your need is from the internet, I guess.

It is also a very effective filter. Not having all that junk in my screen
filters out the crappy pages. If a page doesn't work, I give it a second chance
by letting Opera display the page as plain as possible, not even allowing table.
Usually that solves problems. But if a page doesn't display usable in that bare
mode, I simply move on to the next result on the Google SERP's.

Besides that, it just shows what _can_ go wrong with pages that rely on scripts
or flash or images, without the author and designer providing any appropriate
alternative for them. I like to get reminded every once in a while :-)

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