lynx-dev Tables in Lynx

[Rob Partington]

Upon waking this morning, I had a flash of intuition about
a nice way of handling tables.  20 minutes later, I had my
first formatted table displaying on the screen.  Unfortunately
it only understands *very* simple tables, it still has a lot
of bugs and features missing (like colspan) and it'll still
need a lot of work before it's generically usable.

But, damnit, it worked. 

It turned 

<table>
<tr><th>Year</th> <th>Output</th> <th>Input</th>
<tr><td><a href="1997.html">1997</a></td> <td>12324.32</td> <td 
align=right>232200.20</td>
<tr><td>1998</td> <td>1350.23</td> <td align=right><a 
href="300.html">300.22</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>1999</td> <td>400.43</td> <td align=right>23300.23</td></tr>
</table>

into

   Year Output<< Input
   1997 12324.32 232200.20
   1998 1350.23< >>>300.22
   1999 400.43<< >23300.23
   
(The <> are so I can see where it's moved the output position
 for left/right aligned cells)

Now I need some coffee!
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rob partington % address@hidden % http://lynx.browser.org/