Re: [Lynx-dev] How lynx renders a page problem

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 11:47:44AM -0500, dan d. wrote:
> Am'm I mistaken to think this in lynx.cfg:
> 
> TAGSOUP:TRUE
> 
> Will have the same effect as a toggle of ctrl+V?
> 
> What common problems, if any,  might occur if this is included in lynx.cfg?

The tagsoup still tries to match up closing tags, and could get confused.
(There are pros/cons, depending on whether the page happens to use a
valid feature that lynx doesn't know about versus the page doesn't validate).
 
> Thanks.
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2017, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 12:21:55AM +0000, davidson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2017, dan d. wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >Hello lynxers,
> > > >
> > > >The attached amazon.htm file is how lynx renders search results in
> > > >the mobile and full version of their search engines.
> > >
> > > Both mobile version and full version in the same file?
> > >
> > > >I use the mobile version because with a screen reader there is far
> > > >less chatter in the abreviated results page, the attachment is an
> > > >example.
> > >
> > > So just the mobile version, then.
> > >
> > > >This started recently, as can be seen while the text of the search
> > > >items appears the label for a link pointing to it doesn't.
> > >
> > > I gather that you expect the rendered page to include a link for each
> > > search result.
> > >
> > > In the document you attached to your message, it looks to me like the
> > > some of the anchor elements (ie, the stuff enclosed in 'a' tags)
> > > contain div elements. In particular, the anchor elements that define
> > > the links you are looking for are among these div-containing anchors.
> > >
> > > It seems that Lynx does not render anchors as links when they contain
> > > div elements.
> >
> > pressing control/V toggles the tagsoup mode, and the links show up.
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> XB

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