Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents

[Michael Warner]

On Tue, Apr 28, 1998, for Jason White <address@hidden> <address@hidden> wrote:

> When I attempt to read
> http://lummi.stanford.edu/class/ps142k/WWW/casebook/casebook.htm (a site
> which I found whilst searching for materials relevant to international
> law), Lynx versions 2.7.1 and 2.8 both display the document as HTML source
> instead of formatting it. I could not find any error near the beginning of
> the file, judging from the HTML source as displayed by Lynx, except for
> the absence of an SGML Document Type Declaration. However, many authors
> fail to include such declarations in their web pages, and Lynx reads them
> without difficulty. Thus, the problem must lie elsewhere. Is this
> phenomenon the result of a bug in Lynx?

curiouser and curiouser... I (p)rinted the source to a local file and
opened that file up with lynx, and it rendered (apparently) fine.

-- 
Michael Warner 
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