lynx-dev Re: Current rendering state info

[Kim DeVaughn]

On Thu, Dec 31, 1998, Leonid Pauzner (address@hidden) said:
|
| >> ^V   SWITCH_DTD    switch between two ways of parsing HTML
| >> "    SOFT_DQUOTES  toggle valid vs. soft double-quote parsing
| >> '    HISTORICAL    toggle historical vs. valid/minimal comment parsing
| >> *    IMAGE_TOGGLE  toggle handling of all images as links
| >> @    RAW_TOGGLE    toggle raw 8-bit translations or CJK mode ON or OFF
| >> [    INLINE_TOGGLE toggle pseudo-ALTs for inlines with no ALT string
| >> \    SOURCE        toggle source/presentation for current document
| >> `    MINIMAL       toggle minimal vs. valid comment parsing
|
| All these toggles currently available from form-based options menu
| (with my patch) except SOFT_DQUOTES/HISTORICAL/MINIMAL
| which are not essential (IMO), and SOURCE info shown in status line.

Heh.  I looked at your patch after having posted about wanting a rendering
state summary ...

After applying it, I have a couple suggestions:

 1. There are now two kinds of items in the options menu ... those that get
    saved to your .lynxrc file, and those that don't (eg, TagSoup/SortaSGML).
    There ought to be something that distinguishes the two classes of items.

    (Note: I'm glad you are NOT saving these to the .lynxrc file, as it
    would be all-too-easy to inadvertantly change the default behavior, just
    by using a transient alternate rendering method).

 2. It would be very nice if you showed the toggling cmd keystroke next to
    the line items, as I think in terms of ^V on/off ... not in terms of
    "HTML error tolerance strict/relaxed", etc.  Perhaps putting the above
    labels (IMAGE_TOGGLE, RAW_TOGGLE, etc) in parens would be enough to
    establish the correspondence between the keyboard command, and the line
    item.

 3. The other three rendering toggles, while certainly not essential, would
    still be nice to know the current state of ... if not as something that
    can be changed in the option menu, at least an indicator of their current
    state.

Thanks for reading my mind, and getting something working even before I
asked about it ... :-) ...!

/kim