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Re: LYNX-DEV addressing mail to your friends

From: David Woolley
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV addressing mail to your friends
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 08:44:09 +0100 (BST) 
> <html><head>
> <title>Help with Lynx -*- Question Form</title>
> </head><body>
> <center><h3>Use this form to send in your help questions to
> the lynx-dev mailing list.</h3></center>

If you need to use anything other than plain <h1>, or if you must, plain
<h3> here, I think you should be reporting a suggestion that a different
style be used by Lynx for the heading, rather than trying to force your own
style.  <center> is newer than many Lynx's in the field and is deprecated,
in favour of style sheets, in HTML 4.0 (although my impression is that
Microsoft have decided that style sheets are not a very saleable feature).

> If you cannot find out which keys do what, press `K' after getting

They are still in Lynx (don't confuse them) and should be able to use
K in their current state, as they aren't on an entry field, initially.

> back to Lynx.  On-line help is available in Lynx; press `H' or `?'.
> The present official release of Lynx is 2-7-1.  If your version is older
> than that, questions regarding the handling of certain HTML tags or access
> to certain URLs may not be applicable.  Whenever possible please update.
> You may download lynx2-7-1 or the current developmental source code from:<br>
> <ul plain>
      ^^^^^
Not in the HTML 4.0 Draft DTD, so presumably not in any of the previous
non-proprietory ones.  NB you are claiming, by lack of DOCTYPE, HTML 2.0,
but clearly not using it (e.g. center).

> <li><a href="http://144.35.10.96/lynx/current/";>current development code</a>
> <a href="ftp://144.35.10.96/pub/lynx/fote";>lynx2-7-1</a>
> </ul>
> 
> Please enter your name and full e-mail address for a reply:<br>
> <form METHOD="post" ENCTYPE="text/plain"
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is a Netscapism, which isn't going to be supported by the old Lynx's
from which help requests tend to come.  Only the original url-encoded and
the recent multipart/form-data have any semantics put on them in HTML 4.0.

>       ACTION="mailto:address@hidden";
>       TITLE="Press [RET] to send message, ^G to cancel.">
>       Name: <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name"><br>
>       E-mail: <INPUT TYPE="text"  NAME="To: ">
> <p>
> Operating system: <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="OS"><br>
> Version of Lynx: <INPUT TYPE="text"  NAME="LY_VER">

Unfortunately, the target audience isn't going to know the above or how
to find them; for Lynx, a pointer to "=" might help; for the OS, the
procedure is probably too complex - look at autoconfigure code for this!

Asking how they obtained the binary, might help for people who did their
own plug and play install, as it would give clues as to the libraries used.

> Message: <textarea NAME="message" COLS="70" ROWS="6">
> </textarea><p>
> <tab indent=20><em>*</em>[<INPUT TYPE="submit">]<em>*</em>
> &nbsp;&nbsp;<em>*</em>[<INPUT TYPE="reset">]<em>*</em></tab>
                                                        ^^^^^^
I'm not sure about that one.

> </form>
> </body></html>
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