Re: New AdaIC Site (was Inexpensive Developer Level Commercial ADA compile)

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:50:34 -0400, Ann S. Brandon wrote:
> 
> --Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote
> 
>> In article <mailman.1002844217.25843.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, "Ann S. Brandon" <abrandon@sover.net> writes:
>> 
>> > I hope our new site will make this easy with its drop-down menus, which
>> > allow surfers to go instantly anywhere in the site. In other words, if
>> > someone lands on almost any page of our new site, they are be able to go
>> > to the compilers list to compare compilers, or to the downloads list to
>> > get a free temporary one and try out Ada.
>> 
>> Please make sure it works from secured browsers (Java, JavaScript and
>> cookies all disabled).
>> 
> 
> I don't believe we've put any cookie baking code there. 
> 
> The site works well without Java or JavaScript--we've tested it both on
> Opera and on sites where they are disabled. Instead of using the
> drop-down menus you use the HTML links on the left side. It only works
> on the home page for old browsers (pre-Java) right now; we'll have to
> direct them to another directory with a whole 'nother site. We're still
> tweaking the live site with keywords, etc. But that's our next project.

Note that there also exists excellent browsers out there that is not
pre-Java, but doesn't have Java or Javascript. One is the w3m browser
which is text only. But thanks as the site seem to work very nice with
this browser too. 

To see how w3m viewing adapower and adaic look at: 
http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/w3m/

Preben Randhol