Re: Lynx-specific tags? (Was: Re: lynx-dev Using other HTML parsers in Lynx)

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In "Lynx-specific tags? (Was: Re: lynx-dev Using other HTML parsers in Lynx)"
[27/Jul/2000 Thu 10:39:15]
Mooneer Salem wrote:

> Also, by the way, are there any Lynx-specific HTML tags in
> existance? Would it increase the user base if we "invent"
> a few tags that'll only work in Lynx and get Web designers to use
> them? (Well, Microsoft's did this too with IE... :)

Klause Weide wrote something about those a little while ago. 
There are some, and others Lynx may recognize differently [?],
but I see his point about discouraging their use in public documents.

   Linkname: Re: lynx-dev Special TAG for lynx
        URL: http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month062000/msg00190.html

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vlad Harchev" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 3:00 AM
> Subject: Re: lynx-dev Using other HTML parsers in Lynx
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Mooneer Salem wrote:
> >
> >  If you really want to integrate this parser into lynx (yet another
> parsing
> > mode) ) recommend you to look at
> WWW/Library/Implementation/{SGML.c,HTMLDTD.c}
> >  - these are huge files. If you want to dulicate functionality that is
> already
> > there - good luck (200Kb of code). Are you going to handle unicode, CJK
> > languages, plus syntax highlighting mode? I don't think so it will worth
> the
> > efforts - I don't have any major and even minor complaints to
> > SGML/XML(incomplete)/HTML/ parser already in the lynx.
> >
> >  Thanks for your efforts.



                          Patrick
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