Re: lynx-dev Lynx & tables

[Matt Ackeret]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Philip Webb wrote:

>Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:27:23 -0500
>From: Philip Webb <address@hidden>
>Reply-To: address@hidden
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: lynx-dev Lynx & tables
>
>010103 Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:47:24AM -0800, Matt Ackeret wrote:
>>> I'm not trying to dissuade anybody from improving lynx,
>>> but at least one of the majorly requested features is already in links.
>> sure - the tables look ok in the other two programs,
>> but (links in particular) navigation is poor.
>> Code quality isn't worth mentioning
>> (see the 0.05 code/comment ratio, which basically says its not commented)
>
>i haven't tried Links or W3M, as i find Lynx excellent for most purposes,
>not least its navigating power; for images, download to a file,
>then goto another desktop (Linux + KDE) & look at them with  xv ;
>for tables, there's Tom Zerucha's script, which works very well:
>you list it under printers, send it the source & it outputs a file of tables.

You should at least *try* links. (I prefer it over w3m)

You don't have to do any of that extra work, it just does tables and frames
normally.


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