Re: WWW, Mosiac, and Access for People with Disabilities

Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Unit (lilley@v5.cgu.mcc.ac.uk)
Fri, 7 Oct 1994 22:48:36 +0100

Frans van Hoesel wrote:

> The ISMAP handling program on
> EXPO is a special purpose daemon which does detect browsers
> incapable of ISMAP

It is indeed special purpose: it does not send any MIME headers and does not
understand HEAD; neither does the (different) server that serves the parent
document. I mean, what does `501 something broke' mean?

On the other hand, yes, it does provide an html text page which is great. Would
people know to select a link that just says [image] though?

--
Chris