Anyone appreciates BBC news' low graphics version

[afeasfaerw23231233]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/low

Neat and nice.

I wonder why a news website such as washingtonpost or nytimes has such a lot of useless adobe flash, realplayer, video, audio, stupid ads, etc flying around. What a waste of bandwidth, system resources and time to load! Here in my place the overseas bandwidth to the Europe and the Americas is not that high. I think all website should have provide a "low graphics" option.

P.S. Ubuntuforum is neat and nice too. ;)

[jetsam]

I'm glad they make that available. I've seen it before, but I think maybe I'll try it as a news source for a while. Google News is pretty good if you want to minimize flash, but the low graphics bbc site is more restrained. SO it's almost like a minimal window manager vs. a giant desktop environment like KDE or Gnome. Not to everyone's taste, but very much to some people's.

I also like the NYT home page and a changing handful of local rags as well. There's nothing like real paper, though. The web in general just feels impermanent... possibly because it's always changing.

[toomanyairmiles]

Sadly the BBC cut off access to the low graphics version of the site this week, replacing it with a poorly thought out mobile site. Please sign this petition to help us get it back.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bbclowgraphics/

[pwnst*r]

Sadly the BBC cut off access to the low graphics version of the site this week, replacing it with a poorly thought out mobile site. Please sign this petition to help us get it back.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bbclowgraphics/

lol at the forced donation page.