Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2pre.7

[Vlad Harchev]

On Thu, 27 May 1999, David Woolley wrote:

> > Error at line 9:
> >    <h2><div align=center><tt><a name="STARTFILE"></a>STARTFILE</tt>&nbsp; 
> > [9][.
> > ..]
> 
> I could have done without downloading nearly half a megabyte  when a
> simple statement that there are a large number of errors, and a pointer
> to validator.w3.org, possibly with a summary of the general nature of the
> errors, would have done.   I pay for connect time to my telephone company.
> 
> However the errors are typical GUI user errors, representing a failure 
> to understand that HTML is not a page description language.  If the author
> doesn't like the built in styles for headings, they have two reasonable
> choices:
> 
> - submit a patch to change those styles to ones they think are better (and
>   then argue their case);
> 
> - add CSS style sheet support to allow authors to select their own 
>   styles.

 I quickly checked CSS specs, but seems the only attributes that can be used
from stylesheet information is "text-align" . IMO it's a bad idea to
support colors specified in CSS since 
1) there is a lot of b/w displays
2) with lss enabled, users will be able to chose colors as they wish
3) Terminals can do only few number of colors.
 Font sizes are also non-applicable.
 So IMO there is no need in implementing CSS support since most of information
read from CSS will be ignored.

> If they think that the format is important, they should also use a style
> sheet for the benefit of users of IE3+ and NS4+, so as to mimic their
> ideal Lynx style.
> 

 BTW: you'd better say that there is attribute "align" for tag H2
functionality of which I tried to emulate with span (now this
file is validated succefully by validator.w3.org).

 Best regards,
  -Vlad