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Re: lynx-dev Tables in Lynx
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Philip Webb |
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Re: lynx-dev Tables in Lynx |
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Mon, 14 Jun 1999 23:28:07 -0400 (EDT) |
990614 Rob Partington wrote:
> this morning I had a flash of intuition about a nice way of handling tables.
> 20 minutes later, I had my first formatted table displaying on the screen.
> -- nice'n'neat example snipped --
>> if any advanced table formatting algorithms make it into Lynx,
>> to please also allow the user to turn it off.
> That was in my plans from the start. it's now a fundamental requirement.
> There is also the point the table renderer above isn't going
> to be able to handle "complex" tables any time soon,
> there's little point enabling it for anything but the simplest tables.
but those are the ones which are most frustrating to have Lynx miss now!
what's needed is a simple device which would show a line on-screen:
*** Start of table: <a href=something>attempt 2-dimensional format?</a> ***
[table shown as at present]
*** End of table ***
if you followed the link, Lynx would create a new separate document
offering its best attempt at formatting the table as a 2-D array.
it would be upto the user whether s/he found the result useful:
i would certainly find it useful for the kind of simple tables
eg of national demographic/financial data in Wash Post or Financial Times
which Lynx mangles badly at present.
this would parallel the treatment of frames
& could be switched off in lynx.cfg by those who never want to use it.
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- lynx-dev Tables in Lynx, Rob Partington, 1999/06/14
- Re: lynx-dev Tables in Lynx, Henry Nelson, 1999/06/14
- Re: lynx-dev Tables in Lynx, Rob Partington, 1999/06/14
- Re: lynx-dev Tables in Lynx, Klaus Weide, 1999/06/15
- Re: lynx-dev Tables in Lynx, mattack, 1999/06/15
- Re: lynx-dev Tables in Lynx, Klaus Weide, 1999/06/15
- Re: lynx-dev Tables in Lynx, Eduardo Chappa L., 1999/06/15
- Re: lynx-dev Tables in Lynx, Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/06/15
- Re: lynx-dev Tables in Lynx, Ami Fischman, 1999/06/15
- Re: lynx-dev Tables in Lynx, Klaus Weide, 1999/06/15
- Re: lynx-dev Tables in Lynx, Dave Eaton, 1999/06/15