Yes, it tells the browser to view the page as W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
Can't the templates be modified? Or would it break everything (I suppose it would..

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That doesn't surprise me, since the board uses tables and CSS extensively. How many modern complex sites do look good in a text-only browser? 
You can use Mozilla and Opera on Linux, so don't complain about Lynx. 
CSS is not a problem.
Disabled users can't use Mozilla and Opera. And sometimes when I'm in text-mode I like to browse the web.