Re: lynx-dev Lynx for DOS386+

[Lloyd G. Rasmussen]

On Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:35:00 +0530, 
Shafi Ahmed  <address@hidden> wrote:

>    I have two small queries .=20
>1) I just want to know whether Lynx  DOS386+ supports external mail =
>clients for sending mails apart from it's own mail client .  =20
>    What I mean by external mail client is Eudora or Outlook Express . =20

It looks like you're using and asking about a Win95 product.  You 
should probably be using Lynx/32 for Windows 95/98/NT, also 
available from www.fdisk.com .

I don't know if it is possible to change the mail agent from 
sendmail.exe.  It would be done in the .mailcap file, and/or 
lynx.cfg.  I'm not sure it would work, although some other helper 
applications do work.  

>2) What version of HTML does it support .

Lynx doesn't officially support any particular flavor of HTML, but it 
is continuously under development.  It handles many HTML 4 constructs, 
but probably comes closest to HTML 3.0, which was never adopted by the 
WWW Consortium because browser wars erupted.  If you go by the sttrict 
DTD of HTML 4.0, don't use Java, Javascript or ActiveX controls, and 
provide alternative content for your graphics, you'll do well with 
Lynx.  Table support in Lynx is minimal, which is a good thing for 
many of us, since tables are mostly being abused for layout purposes 
anyway.

-- Lloyd Rasmussen
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