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Re: lynx-dev [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages
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Al Gilman |
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Re: lynx-dev [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages |
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Sun, 23 Aug 1998 11:54:01 -0400 (EDT) |
to follow up on what David Woolley said:
> > <h1>You have reached...page<br>(Lynx Version ...)</h1>.
>
> Although not actually illegal, I think this sets a bad precedent of
> trying to force physical layout (even though one knows the target browser,
> although not the screen width). It is doing this with GUIs as targets that
> is making pages more and more unreadable under Lynx.
> >
> > The reason for this was to gain a line which was taken when <h2> is
> > used.
>
> H2 is probably wrong as well; what's really wanted is an H1A, but there is
> nothing comparable in HTML.
What one wants is the capability for a user-defined structure type
for page header blocks.
You can emulate an XML solution in HTML with a <DIV CLASS=H1> but
there is no way _yet_ to communicate to "the auto-extractor for
structure" that the "brief title" component of this title block
structure serves as a synonym of the HTML H1 for ToC
etc. purposes. That capability is lagging, and is what RDF is
supposed to supply.
On a practical level, trying to get people not to use <BR> in
<Hn> is like arguing that they should use <EM> in lieu of <i>.
It wastes ammunition on battles that are better left un-fought.
Al
- lynx-dev [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages, Sinan Kaan Yerli, 1998/08/21
- Re: lynx-dev [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages, David Woolley, 1998/08/23
- lynx-dev Re: [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages, Sinan Kaan Yerli, 1998/08/23
- Re: lynx-dev Re: [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages, Al Gilman, 1998/08/23
- Re: lynx-dev Re: [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages, Philip Webb, 1998/08/23
- Re: lynx-dev Re: [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages, Michael Warner, 1998/08/25
- Re: lynx-dev Re: [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages, Al Gilman, 1998/08/25
- lynx-dev Zipped help (was Re: [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages), Michael Warner, 1998/08/26
- Re: lynx-dev Zipped help (was Re: [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages), Doug Kaufman, 1998/08/26
Re: lynx-dev [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages,
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