Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund for specific development?

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> > PS: I'm seriously considering working on table support for Lynx. But I 
> > haven't
> > looked at the Lynx source. Is there anything about the Lynx design that 
> > makes
> > it hard or are people just being intimidated by the complexity of html 
> > tables?
> 
> It uses a one pass parser and renderer, but tables need at least two passes.
> (One to determine widths and column counts (you can't rely on the latest
> HTML features to specify these up front), and one to actually render the 
> table.
> (This is why MSIE will stop incrementally rendering when it hits a table.)
> 
> Also most tables won't fit in 80 columns.
right - but it's been pointed out that you can get reasonable results by
a one-pass algorithm which adjusts the column widths as it goes through
the table.  (I do that in a couple of programs that have to display columns,
so I agree - it works most of the time). 

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