Re: LYNX-DEV http://lynx.browser.org

[Foteos Macrides]

Subir Grewal <address@hidden> wrote:
>[...]
>features intended to adapt Lynx to the mutable Web.  Lynx 2.6 implements
>fully HTML 2.0, 3.0, 3.2 (Wylbur) and HTTP 1.0; it marks a beginning
                            ^
                           Wilbur

        The Lynx v2.6 DTD also recognizes everything in Cougar, so you may
not want a parenthetical qualifier at all.  It also recognizes everything
in RFCXXXX(i18n), which hasn't been assigned an RFC number yet.  That
includes stuff which is not in HTML 2.0, 3.0, or any of the 3.2 drafts.
I'd be concerned about the "fully" claim, since your meaning is a bit
esoteric, particularly with regards to TABLEs.

        Peter Flynn is about to put out his update of the HTML Pro
DTD, which will be done in a way that's just as "official" as the W3C
and vendor DTDs, so it might be a good idea to refer to it as well.
You might also indicate that it's the most appropriate one for Lynx
users to choose for validating.  Note that the initial beta of HTML
Pro is too buggy, but the update should be much better, and will
include everything that Lynx supports from HTML 3.0, 3.2, Netscapisms,
and Explorisms, including the "gracefully degrading" attributes I
added for text clients that aren't in the RFCs, drafts, or GUIs' docs
(but should be in them 8-).  It will also be the best one to choose
for Arena, EmacsWWW, Grail, the freeware Mosaics, and UdiWWW.

        I don't know anything about Amaya.  Has anyone tried it and
assessed whether it supports the real HTML 3.0 markup that Arena
supports, but was dropped from 3.2?  Amaya is being developed primarily
by the INRIA component of the W3C, not the component at MIT which is so
heavily dependent on vendor membership fees.  INRIA also is primarily
responsible for development of the Reference Library, which is
technically structured as a perk of paid membership in the W3C, but
is made public after only one month of each update.  It's perhaps
reasonable to anticipate that the Amaya sources will be made public
at some reasonable interval after updates, rather than only after it
has become obsolete, anyway (that won't likely happen, as happened
for Arena, if Amaya has a really good HTML editor built in). 

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