Re: Deadly flaw in Lynx?

[Webmaster Jim]

On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 12:45:43AM +0000, Brian L. Johnson wrote:
> Hello :)
> 
> I enjoy using Lynx, usually on my ISP shell (It's faaast on a 600mhz
> Solaris/T3!). I use it when I don't want to fire up bloated old Netscrape
> but need/want to check out a URL and so on...
> 
> The problem is, this morning, I was trying to use Lynx to maintain a web
> message board that I run, and I wound up inadvertantly nuking ALL of the
> messages.
> 
> Why? I went into the MB's admin center intending to delete one obnoxious
> message, and because Lynx insisted on pre-checking at least one radio
> button in each radio button field (and I was not very awake), all the
> messages got nuked.
> 
> Now I know it's partially my fault for not being very awake (it was at
> 3am), but that MB used to be 24k, with hundreds of messages, and now it's
> almost bare. :(
> 
> Could you possibly come out with a version of Lynx that *doesn't* insist
> on pre-checking a radio button, but instead, leaves them unchecked until a
> user explicitly checks them? It's too late to save my MB, but maybe this
> fix could avert a lot of future agony!
> 
> Thank you for your understanding, and if this message comes across as a
> flame, I apologize. :)

The form should have the correct default button labelled as the default.
Sounds like a lazy programmer. Lynx defaults to the first button.

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