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Re: LYNX-DEV Forms
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RamNarayan S |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Forms |
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Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:22:03 +0500 (IST) |
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On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 address@hidden wrote:
Hi,
> I like Lynx, and find that it nicely accomodates the admittedly clumsy
> access to the Web that a text browser must have. One thing that annoys me
> is the "form" that often comes up in some Web sites. (The Washington
> Post's, at washingtonpost.com, is my current problem.)
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> For one thing, the text-entry lines are too short to show all the text
> that can be entered on them.
I would agree to that suggestion. It is so difficult cramping what you
write into the forms into a few lines without a line break. I have 2
suggestions here.
1. Easier one of the two. When parsing, look for TEXTAREA and modify the
values of the rows and cols variable to something that could be
customised from the Options screen or the config file. That gives you
an option of how many lines or columns you would want in a TEXTAREA by
default instead of what the site has to offer. I am not sure of the
inherent problems in this approach, but definitely worth a try.
2. Is there anyway to identify that you are in a text area and then have a
hot key which allows you to invoke a text editor or something of that
sort where you type in whatever you want to go into a text area of the
form and then fixes them back into the text area when you are through ?
Just a suggestion. Any ideas on difficulty of the task ?
Frankly it is just a `Would Be Nice' feature and I can't estimate the
inherent difficulties of implementing them.
RamNarayan S
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