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Re: lynx-dev New <BR> collapsing patch
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Nelson Henry Eric |
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Re: lynx-dev New <BR> collapsing patch |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:16:37 +0900 (JST) |
> i completely agree that the 2nd choice should be `collapse all' for purists;
> `collapse none' should be 3rd (few, if anyone, wants that);
> `collapse non-pairs' should be default to help the huddled masses.
I also like to talk things out to the end, as long as we are talking
about Lynx. We all love Lynx that much. So I want to make clear
again that I think the "3rd" is a waste of code, just keeps adding
to creeping bloat. What you call `collapse none' and `collapse non-
pairs' should be merged, IMHO, to give the most "easily viewed" or
"expected behavior" to the most people most of the time. Believe me,
if I had the time, I'd work toward recoding the comment handling, too,
so that there were only "correct" and an acceptable (to most people
most of the time) merge of "historical/minimal".
If it really is true that "few, if anyone, wants" the `collapse none',
then why not simply replace it with `collapse non-pairs', i.e., move
David's patch there. Now *that* would be nice. Maybe finish the
proposal with a patch to lynx.cfg, and maybe userdefs.h, to change
the default (see appended diff -c).
> but the basic questions are going to come up again (and again) ...
Isn't that the truth!
__Henry
*** lynx2-8-1/lynx.cfg.dist Tue Aug 18 12:59:48 1998
--- lynx2-8-1/lynx.cfg Tue Aug 18 15:13:54 1998
***************
*** 756,764 ****
# If COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS is set FALSE, Lynx will not collapse serial BR tags.
# Note that the valid way to insert extra blank lines in HTML is via a PRE
# block with only newlines in the block.
! # The default is defined in userdefs.h, and can be overridden here.
! #
! #COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS:TRUE
# If SET_COOKIES is set FALSE, Lynx will ignore Set-Cookie headers
# in http server replies.
--- 756,765 ----
# If COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS is set FALSE, Lynx will not collapse serial BR tags.
# Note that the valid way to insert extra blank lines in HTML is via a PRE
# block with only newlines in the block.
! # The compilation default for COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS is defined TRUE in userdefs.h,
! # but we'll override that here and set it FALSE because there are just too
! # many authors out there using <BR> tags as if they were carriage returns.
! COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS:FALSE
# If SET_COOKIES is set FALSE, Lynx will ignore Set-Cookie headers
# in http server replies.
- Re: lynx-dev New <BR> collapsing patch, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev New <BR> collapsing patch, David Henderson, 1998/08/15
- Re: lynx-dev New <BR> collapsing patch, Nelson Henry Eric, 1998/08/17
- Re: lynx-dev New <BR> collapsing patch, Nelson Henry Eric, 1998/08/17
- Re: lynx-dev New <BR> collapsing patch, David Henderson, 1998/08/17
- Re: lynx-dev New <BR> collapsing patch, David Combs, 1998/08/17
- Re: lynx-dev New <BR> collapsing patch, Benjamin C. W. Sittler, 1998/08/17
- Re: lynx-dev New <BR> collapsing patch,
Nelson Henry Eric <=
- Re: lynx-dev New <BR> collapsing patch, Nelson Henry Eric, 1998/08/18