Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: please say "THIS IS A TABLE!"

[Jan Hlavacek]

On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 12:06:08PM -0800, David Combs wrote:
> i disagree.  most pages that i look at do not have tables
> of them.  
> 
> and i am unable to tell at a glance that something is a
> table, from what is displayed on the screen.
> 
> maybe an optional "this is a table" would be ok.  maybe the
> inserting of a very visible extra line saying that
> the start (and at the end) of the table would help.

Another idea:  if lynx inserts something like [table begins] and [table
ends] around table,  the first one could be a link to a page displaying
the content of the "summary" attribute,  should this exist.

lahvak
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