lynx-dev A wee bug

[David Combs]

Cheers!

FYI: A wee bug, evidently.
  (Perhaps long ago fixed on newer version -- this .18 is
   what I have avail on my isp)

First, I have numbered-links "on".

I try reading a certain news article, but it
has a bad url or something, and I get taken
to their "OOPS! Address Failed" error-page, one link on which
is a form to fill out, to give them some (email?) "feedback".

So I clicked on that, and ended up at (via "="): 


  Lynx 2.8.3dev.18 (06 Jan 2000) ([1]development version)

File that you are currently viewing

>    Linkname: Nando Times/SportServer Feedback
>         URL: http://www.nando.net/links/feedback.html
>     Charset: iso-8859-1 (assumed)
>      Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21
>        Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 05:55:53 GMT
>    
> 
> 
> Now, here's the ORIGINAL screen for that page (via P(rint)):
> 
> 
>    [1][nm.200.85.gif] 
>    
>    [2][nt.215.40.gif] [3][ss.145.40.gif] 
>    
>    Give us your feedback
>    
>    Name
>    e-mail
>    Subject
>    
>    [4]______________________________
>    [5]______________________________
>    [6]______________________________
>    
>    .
>    Type of question you're asking [7][(1)__NT Editorial question]
>    
>    Please enter your comments or questions below
>    
>    
>    [8]__________________________________________________
>    [9]__________________________________________________
>    [10]__________________________________________________
>    [11]__________________________________________________
>    [12]__________________________________________________
>    [13]__________________________________________________
>    [14]__________________________________________________
>    [15]__________________________________________________
>    [16]__________________________________________________
>    [17]__________________________________________________
>    
>    [18]Send comments [19]Clear comments
> 
> References
> 
>    1. http://www.nandomedia.com/
>    2. http://www.nandotimes.com/
>    3. http://www.sportserver.com/
>    4. form field = text entry field
>    5. form field = text entry field
>    6. form field = text entry field
>    7. form field = popup menu
>    8. form field = text entry area
>    9. form field = text entry area
>   10. form field = text entry area
>   11. form field = text entry area
>   12. form field = text entry area
>   13. form field = text entry area
>   14. form field = text entry area
>   15. form field = text entry area
>   16. form field = text entry area
>   17. form field = text entry area
>   18. form field = submit button
>   19. form field = reset button


=======>>>> NOTE: 18 is the submit button.
=======>>>> NOTE: 18 is the submit button.

-------------------------------------- THEN:

Then, what actually happened is that I pasted
the article-heading (5 lines long) plus a blank
line and the url (gotten from bottom of lynx
screen) of where the full article was supposed to be.

All that, plus my first couple of lines of "intro"
about their having a bad url -- all that
came to MORE LINES THAN WERE AVAIL in that
"blacked-out" entry form.  So lynx, of course,
(or someone, anyway) dynamically adds MORE lines
for type-in (here, paste-in).

THE PROBLEM:

The "numbered links" of the FILL-IN-AREA were
added and had properly i++ incremented link numbers (originally
[8] thru [17]), was NOW [8] thru [24].  (Fine and good!)

HOWEVER -- that "submit button", that HAD been [18],
STAYED at [18] on the screen, even though the L-page
(well, References does fine) shows it as now HIGHER (got 
pushed down).

Here is the page AFTER I (by hand) added "too many" lines:



   [1][nm.200.85.gif] 
   
   [2][nt.215.40.gif] [3][ss.145.40.gif] 
   
   Give us your feedback
   
   Name
   e-mail
   Subject
   
   [4]______________________________
   [5]______________________________
   [6]______________________________
   
   .
   Type of question you're asking [7][(1)__NT Editorial question]
   
   Please enter your comments or questions below
   
   
   [8]__________________________________________________
   [9]__________________________________________________
   [10]__________________________________________________
   [11]__________________________________________________
   [12]__________________________________________________
   [13]__________________________________________________
   [14]__________________________________________________
   [15]__________________________________________________
   [16]__________________________________________________
   [17]__________________________________________________
   [18]__________________________________________________
   [19]__________________________________________________
   [20]__________________________________________________
   [21]__________________________________________________
   [22]__________________________________________________
   [23]__________________________________________________
   [24]__________________________________________________
   
   [18]Send comments [19]Clear comments

References

   1. http://www.nandomedia.com/
   2. http://www.nandotimes.com/
   3. http://www.sportserver.com/
   4. form field = text entry field
   5. form field = text entry field
   6. form field = text entry field
   7. form field = popup menu
   8. form field = text entry area
   9. form field = text entry area
  10. form field = text entry area
  11. form field = text entry area
  12. form field = text entry area
  13. form field = text entry area
  14. form field = text entry area
  15. form field = text entry area
  16. form field = text entry area
  17. form field = text entry area
  18. form field = text entry area
  19. form field = text entry area
  20. form field = text entry area
  21. form field = text entry area
  22. form field = text entry area
  23. form field = text entry area
  24. form field = text entry area
  25. form field = submit button
  26. form field = reset button


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