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Re: lynx-dev Re: lynx should respect LANG


From: Henry Nelson
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Re: lynx should respect LANG
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 21:11:21 +0900 (JST)

>  Henry, I can send you a couple of floppies :)

Send 'em in the winter time so I can use 'em for fuel :)

>  As for original topic - I think that the wrapper will do it much better (it
> would be much flexible) than coding it into lynx. I also think that it would
> be nice to provide some kind of support for russian users too (to don't bias
> to JP only).

Do we agree, or what?  Miracles do happen.

>  The biggest problem is to name the wrapper and to force people to use it.
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I can do without the "force people" stuff.  If you need to make a Debian
for dummies, just do a ln -s trick.  How do you guys think sendmail handles
all the Japanese encoding problems out there?  Nice little wrapper lets
you do different in/out decoding on an individual user basis.  No sweat.

>  As for another proposal - the setting like 
> MIMIC_COMMON_BROWSER:TRUE/FALSE would be nice (or some functionality

Oh, yes.  And in the help files somewhere we'd better put:
        "You are receiving this message because you need to
         <a href="http://home.netscape.com/computing/download/index.html";>
         upgrade your browser</a> or have disabled JavaScript."

The part about "disabled JavaScript" is no joke.  The successful hit rate,
meaning at least some useful information can be gleaned from the page,
with Lynx seems to be dropping on a daily basis.  Honestly, can Lynx render
even half of the pages out there?  I guarantee you I will not quiver over
the incorporation of two or three complete modules running over thousands
of lines of code if we can get Lynx to read between the <script></script>.

__Henry

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