Re: lynx-dev lynx2-8-1/Linux patch for new VTs

[Webmaster Jim]

On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:39:25PM +1200, Anthony James Garnock-Jones wrote:
> Hi. I've been missing a feature that both Netscape and IE have - the
> capability to open a new browser window to explore sublinks in. As I
> run Lynx mostly on console on a Linux box, I decided to play with
> implementing a "open new browser window" feature using the Linux
> VT_??? ioctl()s.

I would be strongly *against* adding "features" that are OS-dependent.
One of the strong points about Lynx is that it runs in so many
environments. How will Win32, VMS, and other UNIX Lynx users benefit
from this?

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