Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.3dev.4

[Vlad Harchev]

On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Heather Stern wrote:

> T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > 1999-07-14 (2.8.3dev.4)
>   [most of changelog snipped]
> > * added support for forcing-empty-HREFless-As - ie A element that doesn't
> >   contain HREF will be closed after it was seen (without waiting for </a>) -
> >   this fixes rendering of documentation, produced by broken translators that
> >   don't emit balanced 'A's (eg RedHat docs produced by 'dlh', Sybase docs) -
> >   commandline option is --force-empty-hrefless-a, and 
> > force_empty_hrefless_a 
> >   in lynx.cfg, ifdef'd with NO_EMPTY_HREFLESS_A -VH
> 
> Will this still correctly handle my favorite way of stubbing off hotlinks
> which have been brought to question:
>       <A HREF="http://www.example.com/";>Example Widget Supply House</a>
> becomes
>       <A stub="http://www.example.com/";>Example Widget Supply House</a>
> 
> ...making it easy for me to reinstate the hotlink quickly when the issue
> is resolved.

 What do you say by "correctly handling"? (I read your description of
"stubbing"). This mode is turned on by commandline switch (and/or lynx.cfg
setting) - in this mode such part of html won't get the color of the "a".

> * Heather 
> 

 Best regards,
  -Vlad