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Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund for specific development?
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund for specific development? |
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Thu, 8 Jan 1998 05:21:30 -0500 (EST) |
>
> > PS: I'm seriously considering working on table support for Lynx. But I
> > haven't
> > looked at the Lynx source. Is there anything about the Lynx design that
> > makes
> > it hard or are people just being intimidated by the complexity of html
> > tables?
>
> It uses a one pass parser and renderer, but tables need at least two passes.
> (One to determine widths and column counts (you can't rely on the latest
> HTML features to specify these up front), and one to actually render the
> table.
> (This is why MSIE will stop incrementally rendering when it hits a table.)
>
> Also most tables won't fit in 80 columns.
right - but it's been pointed out that you can get reasonable results by
a one-pass algorithm which adjusts the column widths as it goes through
the table. (I do that in a couple of programs that have to display columns,
so I agree - it works most of the time).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
address@hidden
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund for specific development?, Philip Webb, 1998/01/06
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund for specific development?, Larry W. Virden, x2487, 1998/01/06
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund for specific development?, Greg Stark, 1998/01/06
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund for specific development?, T.E.Dickey, 1998/01/06
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund for specific development?, Andrew Kuchling, 1998/01/06
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund for specific development?, Filip M Gieszczykiewicz, 1998/01/06
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund for specific development?, William Fulmor, 1998/01/06
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund for specific development?, Rob Partington, 1998/01/08
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund for specific development?, David Woolley, 1998/01/08
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