Re: Side scrolling [was Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund ...]

[Michael Ritzert]

David Woolley writes:
 > > 
 > > That's what I was thinking... I'd hack the parser of the tables to just
 > > slug them into an array for each line... making sure to mark empty
 > > cells to keep track of columns. Then, pass the whole thing to a
 > 
 > That won't work except for the sort of table that is handled tolerably
 > well already by Lynx.  General tables require wrapping within a cell.
 > There are also legitimate cases where nested tables are useful (e.g. to
 > force a correct reading order on a non-tables browser!).  Nested tables
 > require recursive evaluation, or at least that you don't assign to columns
 > or groups of columns until you've seen all of the outermost table.

Why not passing the table to a subprocess doing the formatting and
returning a <pre> formatted piece of text to lynx? A table formatter
for that purpose does already exist, at least for the first time being
(tgrnest, somewhere on the lynx pages) until someone writes a table
parser in C.

Another solution might be a partial table implementation like that of
chimera 1.70 (which uses, like lynx, the libwww2).

Michael