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Re: LYNX-DEV OS/2 and tables


From: tz
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV OS/2 and tables
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:34:55 -0400

On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:

> > 970415 Joe Kincaid wrote: 
> > > Someone wrote:
> > > > Going through my platforms page that lists the various Lynx
> > > > ports/supported-platforms, I came across the OS/2 port again and noticed
> > > > that Derek Decker has already incorporated Java and table support
> > > 
> > > Wayne Buttles writes:
> > > >Anyone have a screen shot of Lynx/2 doing tables?  We actually have a
> > > >copy of Warp here, but have NEVER been able to get it to install on any
> > > >(desired) machine.
> > > 
> > > Here are two screen shots. The first is from Lynx/2.
> > --- snip ---
> > >                      [IMAGE] PERU STATE COLLEGE HOME PAGE
> > > 
> > >   [Feature] Peru State College Volleyball Team [Feature]
> > > 
> > > 
> > >         Academics       Activities      Admissions
> > >         Athletics       Alumni & News   Campus Map
> > >         Library         Miscellaneous   People
> > > 
> > >     This page is a central index for access to Peru State College www
> > >     services, as well as for other World Wide Web access points.
> > > 

It may be a case of just enough NBSPs or having <TD> going to the next tab
stop, and it just happens the strings are the right size.

Note that Gnuscape/w3 also has table support (in elisp).

Getting some tables right is easy.  Getting all even with bad HTML, and
complex spanning and nesting is another matter.  Especially without
horizontal scrolling - some tables will be wider than a lynx screen.

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