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Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website by ColinWright on Thursday July 04, 2013 @06:13PM (#5992663)
Not sure you'll see this, but this is what your page looks like on my browser:

http://www.livmathssoc.org.uk/images/AlternativeTo.png

I have, of course, scrolled down past the image. It took some considerable time before I realized there was any text there.

Just thought you'd like to know.

    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) 
    Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
(don't ask)
Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website by raawmarkus on Friday July 05, 2013 @05:47AM (#5994162)
Hi Colin,

I just HAVE to ask :)

Anyway, that doesn't look good and I'm sorry for that. I use a Wordpress theme that I bought and I guess it just doesn't support your browser.

Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website by ColinWright on Sunday July 07, 2013 @06:17AM (#6001649)
In short ...

Some time ago I needed a machine that lets me browse the internet, write programs, deal with email, connect with Skype, and run a small wiki. More, it needed to have roughly an A5 footprint, more-or-less 210 mm x 150 mm. The Asus Eeee running a variant of Linux fitted my needs perfectly. It has a perfectly usable keyboard, and drives almost every projector without problem.

It's still running, and has now been extensively personalized. However, upgrading the browser has repeatedly defeated me. Until recently that hasn't been a problem, most website are still usable, although sometimes (but not always!) the "mobile" version is better/more tolerant than the "desktop" version. It's only in the last few months that there are web sites that simply don't work. For them I often drop to a command line, pull the html directly, post-process with a AWK script, and read the extracted text.

Interestingly, sometimes that's faster than my desktop rendering the full page, with ads, images, and analytics slowing everything down.