Re: lynx-dev LYNX: more pleas for the L-page addrs

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:
> 18-Jan-99 20:02 Klaus Weide wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, David Combs wrote:
> >>
> >> Of couse, the titles are all there in plain view on the
> >> "main" page -- spread around, maybe, but there.
> 
> > No, they are not.  You misunderstand what titles are.
> > What Lynx regards as the title usually comes from the
> > contents of the <TITLE> element.  The title of a document
> > to which there is a link therefore usually comes from within
> > the contents of the referred-to documents, not from the contents
> > of the referring document.  Therefore it is not available
> > unless the referred-to document has been already loaded.
> 
> BTW, when you got a HEAD request and press = for information
> you saw a rendered page title if you request a HEAD for document,
> and "anchor text" if you request a HEAD for a link.

And there are probably other exceptions from what I described - that's
why I qualified my statements with "usually".

And maybe what appears in a LIST page as a title is not always the same
as what appears on the to line when viewing the document or on a '='
page or on the history page or on the Visited Links page.  I don't
mind that in general, normally the efforts to get a title string seem
to give a reasonable result.

Bela's idea seems to make some sense to me, but the main instigator of
this thread hasn't commented on it at all, execept by repeating what HE
wants...

   Klaus