Re: LYNX-DEV Need to know COUNTRY of links:

[Christopher R. Maden]

> Just a suggestion, to see if anyone else agrees:
> 
> When browsing the net, and am at an index page (lots of links going
> out of it, to VAROUS far-off places too), I'd really like to know
> WHERE they are to.
> 
> I don't mean the full path name; just the COUNTRY, a TWO- CHARACTER
> name.
> 
> Why?  Obvious: For some places, I'd rather wait til some other time,
> when net traffic is (vastly) lower to that place.  Eg france,
> australia, ...
> 
> All it would take is two extra characters -- or maybe 4 or 5 "
> (fr)", " (us)", etc.  (If no country code, then maybe "us"?)
> 
> What you could do, then, is for those that you want to delay looking
> at til later, make up a new bookmark page "night time", say, and add
> those (one by one) to it.  Then in middle of night, grab that
> bookmark file, and click on its items.

Great idea!  I've patched Lynx and magically enabled the patch on your
system.  Switch to U)ser mode: Advanced to see the destination of the
links, or use = on the link, and you will note that the destination
contains the country code!  The code I've used is this:

.fr = France
.au = Australia
.com,.gov,.net,.org,.edu,.mil,.us = U.S.A., usually

-Chris
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