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Re: path: revised lynx-dev.html


From: Philip Webb
Subject: Re: path: revised lynx-dev.html
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:56:11 -0400 (EDT)

990411 Leonid Pauzner wrote: 
> 11-Apr-99 18:17 Philip Webb wrote:
>> (2) you don't read the source, you read the rendered version:
>>     the <br>'s serve to divide the lines at natural breaks in phrasing
>>     & the ordinary user never sees them;
> Different users may have different screen width (not only 80 col)
> and HTML documents will be rendered accordingly.
> So the documents within <pre></pre> or with <br>
> will not be good looking at different size. Nothing more.

yes, but inserting <br> to force a line-break at a phrase-break
will always shorten the line; people with very wide screens will need
to hit the Space-bar a bit more often, that's all.

> this is really important in GUI world
> where a user may want to change a font height or window size.
 
people are unlikely to read Lynx help files with a GUI browser.

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