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In fact, I believe we should support telnetters too. Hell, we should all have a help desk set up so that people that don't have a computer can call us up and interact with our web apps. Any good designer should be able to work within those constraints and still kick ass.

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Do the numbers. If you think the money you save in development costs is greater than the cost of pissing off or alienating IE6 users than go for it.

Just hope your competitors are as picky about their customers as you...

absolutely. and JAWS. oh wait, assistive tech. and accessibility don't fit into your [glib] analogy?

Not supporting someone who hasn't bothered to update his/her JAWS in the last 8 years doesn't seem completely unreasonable.

feel free to read through this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man and re-read my reply to jsonscripter's comment.

I'm afraid I'm not at fault for your lack of clarity, poor grasp of the context of the discussion, or anti-social need to put words in someone's else's mouth to make a cheap shot.

no, you are definitely not at fault for those things. however, you are at fault for re-contextualizing this particular comment thread. the original comment spoke of alternative interfaces, not of outdated software, cheapening the discussion with snarky remarks about anachronistic technology. though, plenty of people still use telnet. and physical help desks.

dismissively makes the wanking gesture

or even lynx for that matter!

Anecdotally, I used Lynx just the other day to find a howto on fixing an issue with x.org I was having. Go lynx!

My monitor is broken and will only cope with "low pixel" modes so I'm using it from the console (on another comp). I've been using links2 for a couple of weeks now - it's amazingly good for a text browser, a few annoyances (no tabs, have to use a second console; no way to cut and paste text and links (mouse not working either!)) but on the whole quite usable. Particular I like the way it gets PNG absolutely right whilst IE hasn't even managed that in IE8 (strictly they did it by the book just they implemented it differently to the other browsers, very MS).

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