Re: lynx-dev What's wrong with this site?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:40:34AM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> > > > the author made a booboo re the tagname: he has  <image> , which sb  
> > > > <img> .
> > > > download the source to a local .html file, edit that change & it all 
> > > > works.
> > > > 
> > > > for reference,  'h' -> [22] -> [8] -> [59] , which has a simple example.
> > > > 
> > > > however, shouldn't Lynx be savvy enough to correct the error itself?  
> > > > TD?
> > > 
> > > I don't know - will check/see (compare with other browsers ;-)
> > > 
> > 
> > Hmm, maybe we could have a command line flag
> > for this feature: -auto_correct_html
> 
> Probably better to e-mail the page's author than to re-code lynx, but
> IF it's what everyone wants, maybe put it under "relaxed (TagSoup mode)"
> as opposed to "strict (SortaSGML mode)," rather than create yet another
> option.

this particular one comes up so rarely that it's not worth modifying lynx
(I recall an instance a few years ago).

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