Re: LYNX-DEV standards status of <TD "WIDTH=xx%"> ?

[Philip Webb]

971203 Bela Lubkin wrote: 
> Please see http://www.armory.com/~filbo/sco_links.html for reference.
> The page contains a table with three columns.
> Each table element is introduced with:
> 
>   <TD WIDTH=33% ALIGN=CENTER> contents-of-element </TD>
> 
> What is the status of this "WIDTH=" tag, WRT various HTML standards?
> One of the recurring reasons stated for Lynx's inability to render
> tables nicely is that it cannot determine column widths in advance.
> Here is a mechanism by which the page author can *state* column widths,
> inline to the table.  In this case Lynx could simply allocate 33%
> (best approximation) of the available row space, and render the contents
> of the element (as much as will fit).  Since it's in terms of percentages
> and since we can choose to render the elements incompletely,
> this doesn't require horizontal scrolling.
> 
> Meanwhile, I've hacked the page up to display "better" under Lynx
> under http://www.armory.com/~filbo/test_links.html.

using 2-7 on  test_links , i get the following fair result:


   [1][LINK] [2][USEMAP]
   . . . . . . . Free Software Links
   
             Last Updated: Monday Dec 01, 1997 at 14:43:47 PST
                                      
 [3]SCO Download Center      [4]Free UNIX                [5]Java
         
 [6]SCO Related FTP Sites    [7]SCO Internet Resources   [8]Freebird (UnixWare)
         
 [9]Oakland Univ. (Xenix)    [10]Celestial Systems, Inc.  [11]XeniTec Consultin
g Services 
 [12]SIU (Unix & Opendesktop) [13]Robert Lipe's Home Page  [14]Robert Lipe's GN
U Dev Sys   
 [15]4Front Audio Apps        [16]Xaudio MPEG Audio Player [17]Lxrun Linux Emul
ator        
 [18]Mini-SQL                 [19]The GNU Project          [20]HyperNews Home
            
 [21]Hypermail                [22]LLNL Xdir                [23]Xpdf Home Page
            
 [24]Xv                       [25]The GIMP                 [26]Not-So-Bad Distr
ibution     
 [27]Astrolog                 [28]WINE                     [29]Mesa 3-D graphic
s library   
 [30]Lynx                     [31]Xmcd                     [32]Xanim
            
 [33]RealAudio Player         [34]Bzip2                    [35]FreeBSD Stuff
            
 [36]MySQL                    [37]freeWAIS-sf              [38]Linux Apps & Uti
ls          
 [39]Window Managers          [40]Pov-Ray                  [41]Free Widget Foun
dation set  
 [42]Egcs GNU C Compiler      [43]LWGate WWW mailing lists [44]Glimpse filesyst
em search   
 [45]PHP/FI Home Page         [46]XSwallow Plugin          [47]Isearch Search E
ngine       
 [48]Fetchmail Home Page      [49]Univ. of Washington IMAP [50]The Spam Bouncer
            
 [51]Linux Online!            [52]MPEGTV Home Page         [53]ACME Laboratorie
s           
 [54]X-Mame (Emulator)        [55]Game ROM images          [56]More Game ROM im
ages        
 [57]X11 contrib at sunsite   [58]sunsite's Linux archive  [59]The X Window Sys
tem         
 [60]Internet Software Consortium ([61]BIND, [62]DHCP and [63]INN)
 [64]Other Sites
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     &COPY; Copyright 1997 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. All rights
   reserved.

(PW again:) this looks promising.  any thoughts or improvements, anyone?
and nice idea, Bela.

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