Re: LYNX-DEV Table support?

[Gunnar Strand]

Pete Ruczynski uttered:

> > look thro' the lynx-dev archive.
> > goto  lynx.browser.org  to find that & search mechanisms.
> 
> Thanks, I will.
> 
> > there's a very basic problem for a 1-pass renderer.
> 
> Can you point me to an article which says what this is?

You need to know the width of the entire block (table) before you
can render it. Lynx, as I understand it, can't do that. I've tried
a table parser in awk, but links wouldn't work so I wrote one in Perl,
which do give nice results on some pages (horrendous on most, though).

The best description on how to write a table parser is pressing 'H'
and visit 'HTML 2.0'. The biggest problem with adding tables to Lynx
is that you will have to write your own fully HTML compliant renderer.
Sigh.

Oh, and I also found out that it won't be much more complicated to
write the thing in C than in Perl. Maybe I'll get around to it this
summer.

Luck, Gunnar!
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