lynx-dev Re: Altavista [fwd]

[Michael Warner]

FYI, from the Links list ...

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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:54:03 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikulas Patocka <address@hidden>
To: Paul Hartman <address@hidden>
cc: Links Developers <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Altavista

Hi.

> Using Links to view Altavista's text-only version
> http://altavista.com/?text links is unable to submit the search. But on the
> other searches (graphical, advanced, etc) it works. Is it a Links problem
> or some badly coded form?

That's broken html on the page: <FORM name=mfrmaction="/cgi-bin/query" 
method=get>
There should be space before 'action'.

There is no specification saying what should browser do with bad html, so
every browser behaves differently.

It seems that Lynx contains artifical intelligence if it can parse such
buggy pages :-)

Mikulas


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