"Christian Panigl, ACOnet/UniVie +43 1 4065822-383" <panigl@cc.univie.ac.at Even http://www.netscape.com/ shows its home-page to poor man's browsers, why can't the RIPE-NCC ? I always thought the RIPE-NCC is a technical network coordination centre whose info's should be accessible as broadly as possible and not a shopping-mall for Netscape shareholder s (sorry for this one ;-}
We totally agree with you on this one. That is why we have made two versions of the site. The fancy one you complain about had all the bells and whistles including frames and many graphics. The other is mainly text and uses standard HTML only. The problem is that we automatically detect whether your browser is frames capable and give you the fancy version if it is. There were basically three choices we could make: 1) Determine the browser's capabilities and choose a version accordingly. 2) Always show a selection page for the user before showing the home page 3) Always show the non-fancy home page with a selection button to choose the fancy version. You seem to favour option three. This one did not fall well with those that argued our site should look flashy and we whould show off all the design work we did. :-). We plan to have a button on the framed version to select the non framed one though. It was one of these things that wasn't ready at the last second. You can choose the non framed version now by using a browser not capable of frames (if you dislike frames/netscape). Alternatively you can just link to http://www-new.ripe.net/cgi-bin/noframes/translate?html/noframes/homepage.ht....
Please make your info-site "Lynx"able again, and make all Java/Frames and other "kinky" features optional !
The site is Lynxable as Lynx does not do frames it will use the non-framed version.
My personal opinion, anyway, always interested in others of course !
Mine too. Daniel