Re: lynx-dev internal links

[dickey]

> 
> > From: address@hidden 
> > Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:33:23 -0400 (EDT) 
> >... 
> > The gist is that Lynx can be configured to recognize links within a 
> > document that don't behave the way Fote interpreted someone's draft 
> > proposal.  (He's more than likely correct, but spent a lot of words without 
> > pinpointing the exact issue - ading words to an argument doesn't make it 
> > cleared).  It's in the code now, but not normally activated. 
>  
> Oh, are internal links the same as hidden or invisible links? 
> I was one involved in that exchange with fote and klaus. 
>  
> Fote wanted to remove them altogether so they weren't visible 
> except on the list page.  I wanted them to be numbered like 
not as I understood it - Fote didn't want the feature at all.
(perhaps you're confusing this with another feature - I don't know, but will
see if this is the case).

> visible links so as to see the context when links-are-numbered was turned on. 
> (My main reason was that sometimes links are invisible because of parser 
> error 
> recovery on bad html, and so the auther of the website may not have intended 
> to make them invisible.) 
>  
> Klaus I believe compromised by picking up fote's code but adding command line 
> options to handle hidden links in various ways. 
>  
> So you want to remove Klaus' compromise code? 
right (unless we have some sort of consensus to keep the feature).

> --le 


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