Re: lynx-dev Is this List for Lynx users or *just* developers

[RobertM]

It is alleged that Duke Normandin once typed:
[snip]
> Fair enough! I ask again....is there a 'Lynx-user' group, so that I can
> quit disturbing _this_ list? If it was up to me only, I'd quit using Lynx
> in favor of 'Links' and/or 'w3m'. However, I'm developing a multi-page
> HTML document (docs) and am adamant that it will be 'text-based browser'
> friendly. I'm getting great page-renderings is IE4+, Netscape, Links and
> w3m -- but some of what works in the aforesaid browsers, doesn't in Lynx.
> This is a _major_ PITA, and makes it extremely difficult to produce
> a document that will be friendly to Lynx AND the rest of the text-based
> and graphical browsers --- especially those HTML tags for which Lynx only
> has half-hearted support.

One thing that might eb relevant, is your copy of lynx using 
strict (SortaSGML mode)
or 
relaxed (TagSoup mode)
For HTML error recovery?
Working on a problem recently with the public lynx client changing
between these two modes made a lot of difference on how tables where
displayed.

-- 
Robm
873
  "Ask not what I can do for the stupid, 
         but what the stupid can do for me" - Graeme Garden

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