Re: LYNX-DEV Table toggle

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On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Julian Rodriguez wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:
> 
> > I doubt that lynx, with the code that now exists for it, will get any
> > better than it is now.  Perhaps "Son of Lynx", designed and written
> > from scratch to be a new super whoopie lisp/scheme/ml/hot language of
> > the week based browser, may stir some student's interest in revolutionizing
> > the web, but other than that, what we have now is what we will be living
> > with, with the exception of evolutionary improvements such as Fote
> > provided over the past few years.
> 
> Agreed.  We already have an incomplete implementation of coookie support;
> why not partial table rendering?

As I posted before, it appears that lynx uses a linear (one dimensional)
model for rendering, so you could not (easily) create vertical sections,
much less smaller boxes on the main grid.

In order to investigate how to parse tables, I wrote an AWK script.  The
lynx filter is not 100% there (it dupes /FORM and other tags, but I am
working on it), but the plaintext now handles rowspans with colspans, etc. 
So now I have something.  Lynx won't have internal table support until
lynx can render within subscreens.  And at that point (if I haven't done
so before) I will port my awk script to C and integrate it.

But for now, there is something, which allowed me to find all kinds of new
HTML abuses and errors :).  And produce something that looks correct.

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