Re: LYNX-DEV why not use shift-V to access multiple bookmarks list?

[Benjamin C. W. Sittler]

On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Al Gilman wrote:

[many relevant comments snipped]
>       - a page whacker.  this is a possible new project that requires
>       a mix of blind and sighted, users and programmers.
>       It is too far off-center from the lynx-dev mission to
>       be the first order of business here, but as I say, the
>       relationship between the two is not as distant as 
>       "arm's length."
> 
>       If we had a working Perl page whacker, we might then be
>       able to see how to add its behavior as an option to Lynx.
>       I don't think that doing this function "inline" in the 
>       ongoing portable-C maintenance of Lynx is a good way to 
>       experiment with the transform.  

I have a perl renderer (which relies on sgmls) that might do this job in
an acceptable manner, although it requires a valid HTML document to work
right. It understands TABLEs, although it doesn't render them... currently
it just displays a range of rows and columns covered by each cell. How
would speech users like tables "rendered"? The perl script uses a fairly
flexible "stylesheet" to determine rendering, and could be adapted to
display arbitrary text before/after elements. Is there any real interest
in such a tool?

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Benjamin C. W. Sittler - address@hidden - http://www.nmt.edu/~bsittler

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