Re: lynx-dev Tables on Lynx2.8.4 Windows port

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:38:04PM -0600, Duke Normandin wrote:
> 
> On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:03:45PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 05:38:45PM -0600, Duke Normandin wrote:
> > > The worst case I've encountered was receiving a multi-page result for a
> > > search at 
> > > http://www.google.com
> > 
> > hmm - mostly I've been visiting google w/o IZ's changes.  (I have in mind
> > to make a runtime toggle for the nested table feature so it's easier to
> > contrast with/without the feature).
> 
> Curiously enough, yesterday I saved a couple of tutorial pages that I
> found on the 'net, for local viewing. Turns out that there were a couple
> of tables in the pages that were being rendered all haywire. I checked
> the html, and sure enough when I fixed the non-compliant code, the tables
> looked fine. So could be that Google's pages are screwed up as well -
> dirty buggers. ;^) Thanks....

yes - that's a general problem (deciding whether the pages are bad, or if
the browser is not doing a good job).  Often it's a mixture.

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