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lynx-dev Re: [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages

From: Sinan Kaan Yerli
Subject: lynx-dev Re: [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:24:06 +0100 
(22/08/1998 12:19) David Woolley:

>> * Printing and Download pages are divided into two sections: 'Default'
>>   and 'External' (I need help here; I wasn't sure about the naming, so
>>   these are just first guesses from non-native English speaker).
>
>I would use "Standard" and "Local Additions".

OK.

>>      <h1>You have reached...page<br>(Lynx Version ...)</h1>.
>
>Although not actually illegal, I think this sets a bad precedent of
>trying to force physical layout (even though one knows the target browser,
>although not the screen width).  It is doing this with GUIs as targets that
>is making pages more and more unreadable under Lynx.
>> 
>>   The reason for this was to gain a line which was taken when <h2> is
>>   used.
>
>H2 is probably wrong as well; what's really wanted is an H1A, but there is
>nothing comparable in HTML.

Before I go further on this patch I want to list what we have in our
_internal_ pages; we have got basicly three main lines of `strings':
XYZ_OPTIONS_TITLE, H1_STRING_FOR_XYZ, and LYNX_NAME_AND_VERSION (mixed
in H1 and H2).

My _marginal_ view is that I would rather like to get rid of H1_STRING,
because for most of the pages, it is almost the same with the title. So
my proposal is this:
                                                        XYZ_OPTIONS_TITLE
                     LYNX_NAME_AND_VERSION-with-H1

<!-- Main body starts here (which saves 2 lines) -->
-or-
I can be even more marginal and i can put LYNX_NAME_AND_VERSION with the
title like this:
                                XYZ_OPTIONS_TITLE (LYNX_NAME_AND_VERSION)

<!-- Main body starts here (which saves 4 lines) -->

My whole point is that all these pages are internal; _information_
displayed within the page and space occupied with this information are
more important then 'traditional'
<head><title>--</title></head><body><h1>--</h1> structure. I (like all
the other Lynxers) tend to try to fit into 80x24 screen. This is another
reason for saving 4 more lines.

If the community agrees in either of the `heading' structure then I am
willing to work on it to make a standard internal page structure.

>> Content-Type: application/x-gunzip
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
>This was too small to justify the inconvenience of having to unzip it,
>and in any case the content type is gzipped, not gunzipped.

I informed 'mutt' development list. It is because of the distributed
'mime.types'. If one uses without checking this is what happens. Thanks.
(ps: as a preference I usually compress > 10K attachments).

Sinan.
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Sinan Kaan Yerli <address@hidden>
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