Re: lynx-dev Re: lynx should respect LANG

[pAb-032871]

In "Re: lynx-dev Re: lynx should respect LANG"
[24/May/2000 Wed 05:11:21]
Henry Nelson wrote:

> >  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?

Excuse me?  My habits in web browsing might be unusual or something,
but VERY RARELY do I come upon a totally unusable page.  And remember
that I'm using MacLynx, a version *TWO*SEVEN*ONE* port with half
the standard features missing and a few others buggy.  [Haven't
used my shell much lately because I'm messing with the config
files and the 680x0 binary, and want to be aware of any changes
in its behavior.]  I have no complaints.

Granted, I usually surf looking for information, shareware/freeware,
obscure program behavior-modification kits and the like, and
many of these pages are built along similar lines to a home-page,
but the search engines and other sites I use to *find* this stuff
are commercial [framesets and cookies and bears, oh my].

Yes, sorry; I like to blather about tables and strange ways to
add frames support, and I hope this hasn't annoyed anyone.  Those
kinds of puzzles *interest* me and it's hard not to think out
loud sometimes.

> 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>.

                                   Happy Hacking.


                    Patrick
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