Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on www.microsoft.com

[Laura Eaves]

> Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 18:36:38 -0500 (EST)
> From: Foteos Macrides <address@hidden>
>...
> Laura Eaves <address@hidden> wrote:
> >Unfortunatly, using LIST all you get is a list of URLs, and you can't tell
> >which ones were visible on the original page.
>
>       That was a residual bug only in NUMBERS_AS_ARROW mode, which I
> just fixed, and updated today's fotemods.zip update.

It seems to occur in all 3 keypad modes.  However, now that I look at it again,
I do notice that the "invisible links" appear as
        * [123]url
whereas the visible ones appear as
        *
          [123]url
Is the highlightable text supposed to appear after the bullet?
If so, there's a bug.
If not, it would be a nice feature if it did.

> >As you  know, the bracketed numbers ALREADY APPEAR when link numbering is on,
> >without any esoteric hacks.  This has nothing to do sith displaying [LINK] in
> >the particular case I mentioned.
>
>       They don't in the fotemods code, unless the HText_endAnchor()
> mods fail to track down the previously entered, numbered bracket for what
> proved to be a content-less (intended to be hidden) link.  The failure
> can happen, but is rare.

So your mod erases the bracketed number but doesn't renumber the links.
Then the user will see numbers being skipped, and will therefore know there's
a link there somewhere...:).

Anyway, this sounds like an "esoteric hack" to me...:)
--le

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