Re: lynx-dev Tables (once again) and virtual lynx pages

[Robert A Hopkins]

On Thu, 11 May 2000, David Woolley wrote:

> > In other words, it really isn't a great leap of intuition to have
> > lynx text pages that are several screens wide, and scrolling
> > consists of something like CTRL-left and CTRL-right, with printing
> 
> The real reason that horizontal scrolling has been rejected is that
> it is painful when used with real terminal over dialup lines, because it
> takes a significant amount of time to paint the scrolled version of the
> screen.  I'd also expect it to cause problems with people using screen
> readers.

Well I for one would like to reject horizontal scrolling because it's a 
major, odious pain in the neck. One of the nicest features of LYNX is 
that it wraps text beautifully AND ALWAYS. It ALWAYS ignores the silly 
ideas of layout artists and presents text content, pure & simple. 

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