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To read PDF links in our Broadsides you need a PDF viewer, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. It's free for the download and runs on all major platforms. There are other free equivalents, for example xpdf for the X Window System on unix, vms, OS/2, linux, etc.
Currently, no other software is recommended/needed to view items on the ASGP pages besides a web browser, any browser.
Owing to our wiring the entire site for the HTML 4.0 <link> HTML element in the page headers, it is possible to uniformly navigate the structure of the entire site; in particular, it is a breeze to visit every page in sequence using just the carriage return (Lynx) or by pressing the same links navigation toolbar interface button (SeaMonkey, Mozilla, Opera, iCab, Links, Elinks, w3m, Lynx and Lynx-based browsers for the physically-impaired, the blind or those who simply like to be read aloud to), or by performing the equivalent of this "next" gesture, perhaps via voice. In the two most popular browsers, Internet Explorer and Firefox, this can be had by installing an extension that provides a link navigation toolbar. Link navigation toolbars for various browsers are described by the 17 June 2007 article "Link Bars: How Link Relations Are Implemented" (version 1.51) on the Webcoder.info website.
On our site, a standard set of these controls is provided as well, and several custom ones that show up in iCab, Lynx, SeaMonkey and Mozilla -- as well as in the extension-enhanced Internet Explorer and Firefox, but not in Opera (9.24). Unfortunately, not all browsers implement support for structural navigation, but those that support client-side JavaScript, can be easily provided with a toolbar described and linked to in the abovementioned Webcoder.info article: it is called "linknav.js".
In Lynx, the first item displayed on a page with standard navigation is a hashmark-prefaced list of buttons at the top of the page. Pressing hashmark (number sign) anywhere on any page puts the cursor on the first of these, which in our case is the aforementioned "next" -- hence our blessedly concise carriage-return navigation for textual browsing. Poem pages do not have any such navigation, because they are designed to be speed-navigated in Lynx. The first link on the page is the link to the next poem in the room, and they all form a one-way ring. Hitting space bar to see more of the page, and then carriage return once, to get to the next poem, is all you need to do.
In Opera, it's even more streamlined, owing to the fact, that hitting space bar at the bottom of the page navigates to the next page specified by first link on the page, which for us is always the "next" link or the next poem in the ring.
Tell us of any rendering problems, please, or of any problems. We like praise, too.
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