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

[Michael Ritzert]

David Woolley writes:
 > > Another solution might be a partial table implementation like that of
 > > chimera 1.70 (which uses, like lynx, the libwww2).
 > 
 > Lynx already has a partial table implementation (</td> and </th> ---> space 
 > and </tr> goes to <br>).  The argument is about the degree of partial 
 > implementation.

Well, the degree of implementation in chimera 1.70 is much more
satisfying than that in lynx. Did someone of the "lynx gurus" have a
look at this table stuff?

BAck to my idea with te external application: i'm aware that such a
formatter must be able to to a lot of the formatting of the other html
tags. But if it is less difficult to write such an external app (like
the already existing awk script doing exactly that) than implementing
the table stuff directly in lynx --- why not chose this way?

A short note to another question coming up permanently:
Java/Javascript.

Meanwhile, i saw several very useful applications based on java
script, namely, several dynamical interfaces to information retrieval
systems like free MEDLINE in Germany (i don't remember its URL) and
ELFI (http://www.elfi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/elfi5/index.html) which need
JavaScript, tables and frames in a way mappable to a terminal display.
Services like these are important in the scientific world, and i
guess, it it just this world of the majority of the lynx users.

No to my question: did somebody have a look at the BarryScript stuff
announced a few weeks ago in this group?

Michael