Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund for specific development?

[David Woolley]

> PS: I'm seriously considering working on table support for Lynx. But I haven't
> looked at the Lynx source. Is there anything about the Lynx design that makes
> it hard or are people just being intimidated by the complexity of html tables?

It uses a one pass parser and renderer, but tables need at least two passes.
(One to determine widths and column counts (you can't rely on the latest
HTML features to specify these up front), and one to actually render the table.
(This is why MSIE will stop incrementally rendering when it hits a table.)

Also most tables won't fit in 80 columns.