Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents

[David Combs]

> From address@hidden Tue Apr 28 21:25:49 1998
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 19:35:12 +1000 (AEST)
> From: address@hidden (for Jason White <address@hidden>)
> 
> When I attempt to read
> http://lummi.stanford.edu/class/ps142k/WWW/casebook/casebook.htm (a site
> which I found whilst searching for materials relevant to international
> law), Lynx versions 2.7.1 and 2.8 both display the document as HTML source
> instead of formatting it. I could not find any error near the beginning of
> the file, judging from the HTML source as displayed by Lynx, except for
> the absence of an SGML Document Type Declaration. However, many authors
> fail to include such declarations in their web pages, and Lynx reads them
> without difficulty. Thus, the problem must lie elsewhere. Is this
> phenomenon the result of a bug in Lynx?
> 
> 
> 

I tried it, went up a level or two, and ALL the .htm-files were
that way.

If other sites are this way, OR if these .htm-files DO read OK in
netscape and M$, then lynx probably needs some way to prefix the
page with title or whatever is needed to make it parse as html.