Re: lynx-dev LYNX: cursor showing strangely on screen in newest version

[Michael Warner]

On Tue, Dec 29, 1998, David Combs <address@hidden> wrote:

> When I "j" down the screen, from one link to the next, the screen
> shows it strangely, as a black rectangle maybe 6 chars wide.
> 
> Sometimes at the left edge of the screen, sometimes at the right edge.
> 
> Here is the "=" page, to show the version of lynx:  (note: am doing this
> on netcom.com, on the version set up by bill cheung (address@hidden):
> 
> 
>                                         Information about the current document
>  
>   Lynx 2.8.2dev.12 (26 Dec 1998) ([1]development version) - [2]compile time
>                                    options
> 
> File that you are currently viewing
> 
>    Linkname: The Nando Times: Global
>         URL: http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/global/

        [...]

> Any idea what might be the cause?

A few clues - the W3C validator didn't seem to want to deal
with the page, even after I supplied a DOCTYPE declaration, and
using '*' (toggle-images, I think) fixed it for me.

There was another problem discussed and patched, maybe a
month or two ago?, that had pretty much the symptoms, if I
remember rightly.  Something to do with link highlighting on
one or more of the derived pages - history? visited? - under
some circumstances.  Pretty vague, but I didn't follow it
too closely.  Klaus probably knows, I think he played a
leading role ....

-- 
Michael Warner 
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