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Re: lynx-dev Vlad's suggestions
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David Woolley |
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Re: lynx-dev Vlad's suggestions |
Date: |
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 08:29:16 +0000 (GMT) |
>
> On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 10:42:38AM +0000, David Woolley wrote:
> >
> > <b> & <i> involve a change of font from normal to bold or italic, which
> > in general causes a change in character widths, so they are incompatible
> > with <pre>
>
> As far
> as I can tell, these tags aren't forbidden in the HTML specification. As
My mistake.
> long as the browser authors make sure all fonts used inside a preformatted
> block are the same width, there should be no problem. If they don't do
FONT is most certainly forbidden - make sure you use the transitional
DTD, if using the HTML 4.0 spec, as the main text and the strict DTD don't
allow FONT anywhere, so can't include it in a list of forbidden elements.
> Another thing that isn't forbidden, but lynx doesn't do properly in
> my opinion, is <CENTER> or <DIV>. Now you may think that centering
As pointed out elsewhere, this is block level, but PRE can only contain
inline level. I missed this general exclusion from a previous reply and
only gave the specific additional exclusions.
Re: lynx-dev Vlad's suggestions - elements in PRE, Klaus Weide, 1999/03/07
Re: lynx-dev Vlad's suggestions, David Woolley, 1999/03/08
Re: lynx-dev Vlad's report - lss glitches, Klaus Weide, 1999/03/07
Re: lynx-dev When unhighlighting some highlighted links, lynx draws them incorrectly, Vlad Harchev, 1999/03/15
- Re: lynx-dev When unhighlighting some highlighted links, lynx draws them incorrectly, Klaus Weide, 1999/03/15
- Re: lynx-dev When unhighlighting some highlighted links, lynx draws them incorrectly, Vlad Harchev, 1999/03/15
- Re: lynx-dev When unhighlighting some highlighted links, lynx draws them incorrectly, Klaus Weide, 1999/03/16
- Multiple command-line URL's (was: Re: lynx-dev When unhighlighting some highlighted links, lynx draws them incorrectly), Michael Warner, 1999/03/16
- lynx-dev Re: Multiple command-line URL's, Philip Webb, 1999/03/17
- Re: Multiple command-line URL's (was: Re: lynx-dev When unhighlighting some highlighted links, lynx draws them incorrectly), Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/03/17
- lynx-dev Re: Multiple command-line URL's, Michael Warner, 1999/03/17
- Re: lynx-dev Re: Multiple command-line URL's, Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/03/18