Re: [Lynx-dev] maclynx -- utf8-ignore and/or update...

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 11:23 a -0700 05/28/2010, Patrick didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

> On Fri, 28 May 2010 09:32:43 -0700
> Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>
> >  At 04:29 a -0700 05/26/2010, Patrick didst inscribe upon an 
> > electronic papyrus:
> >
> >  >On Wed, 26 May 2010 12:19:33 +0200 (CEST)
> >  >address@hidden wrote:
> >  >
> >  >>  hello,
> >  >  > I managed to get maclynx 2.7.1 beta 1 working on a powerbook 100.
> >
> >
> >  >But if your Powerbook is running MacOS X, you should be able to
> >  >find a much more recent version of Lynx built for OSX
> >
> >  OS X on a PowerBook 100? Haha. Hahahaha. Hahahahahahahahaha.
>
> And I should take this as a... no?  Probably a no.

#  Apple Macintosh PowerBook 100 Specs @ EveryMac.com (p1 of 3)

   Introduction Date: October 21, 1991
   Discontinued Date: August 3, 1992
   Processor Type: 68HC000
   Processor Speed: 16 MHz
   [...]
   Maximum RAM: 8 MB
   [...]
   Supported MacOS: 7.0.1-7.5.1,7.5.3-7.5.5


> Anyway, I kind of wonder if the `Load Internally' thing worked
> for him.  Is a bit tedious since it adds an extra step to viewing
> any UTF-8 page, but I managed okay.

I've wanted to view all sorts of text/* files (CSS, JavaScript, etc.) 
in addition to various encodings. I've generally saved to disk and 
then opened from there. Never understood why Lynx made me go through 
that, as Lynx is so smart in other ways.


-W