Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 2.7.2 report

[Jacob Poon]

On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Jan Hlavacek wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 10:18:19PM -0500, Jacob Poon wrote:
> 
> First of all,  the newest version is 2.8.  I suggest that you upgrade.

I know, but I have been constantly asking for my admins for upgrading
2.4.2 for about a year, but they just installed lynx 2.7.2 seveal days
before lynx 2.8 arrived. ^_^;  I think I will wait until lynx 2.9 arrives.

> > + Bugs
> > 
> > Table
> > =====
> > 
> > When dealing with tables, if a table row contains cells which the contents
> > of cell is aligned with <center>..</center> pair, the table row is split
> > into several rows, which shouldn't.  For example,
> > 
> (snip)
> > 
> > Lynx will put each cell into a separate row, when this shouldn't be the
> > case (at least not on Netscape 3.01).
> 
> Lynx way of handling tables is different than Netscape's.  There has
> been a lot of discussion about this lately,  I suggest you look in the
> archives.  There is also a short description of the way Lynx handles
> tables in Lynx's help files.  

I looked at it, it says lynx treats <TR> as collapsible <BR>, and insert
collapsible space before the content of each TH and TD start tag. 
However, in this example, lynx inserts line break for each TD.  But in the
sample code, the rendered table cells were too short to require breaking
each cell into a separate row.  I once heard it was <Center> in <Br> is
implemented as in current lynx behaviour, but not so sure. 

> > + Suggestions
> > Display character set
> > 
> > Automatic option for graphical environment.
> 
> Huh?

You see, in Netscape, it automatically loads different fonts when viewing
document in different coding, which is found in the <meta> tag.  The
'automatic' option will do something similar on graphical environment
(xterm, Windows, Mac, etc.)

> > Printing/saving
> > 
> > It is possible to save the current page being viewed into raw format. 
> > Useful when the URL is typed manually instead of following a link, which
> > makes download command useless. 
> 
> Yes,  it is.  Switch to "view source" mode and press 'p'.

Yes, but long lines are wrapped to the width of terminal with the print
command, which isn't desirable in some cases.  Furthermore, in some rare
instances, lynx may choose to view a binary file instead of downloading
it.  Using the print option in such cases corrupts saved files.  Using
history list and d/l from there could work, but not exactly intuitive.

> > Bookmark management
> > 
> > Support for collapse/expand bookmarks into groups, and for that matter,
> > editing bookmark entries.
> 
> You can edit them with an external editor.

Yeah, but not collapsing/expanding part.

> > Others
> > 
> > Press right key goes to next document instead of select link.
> 
> You mean the document specified in "<LINK rel="next" ..>"?  But there
> may be more of them.

No, I mean the next higher number document in the history page.  Speaking
of which, when following a visited link in the history page, lynx should
not add that link into the history page stack.  And for that matter, if
the current page is reached by following the non-topmost history link,
lynx shouldn't put such link on top of the stack (well, may be it can be
done optionally).