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Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx and frames fallthrough
From: |
Lloyd Wood |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx and frames fallthrough |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Dec 1997 22:59:43 +0000 (GMT) |
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Lloyd Wood wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, glen mccready <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/spacesearch/
> [...]
> >
> > The Lynx 2.7 you're using isn't implementing frames fallthrough
> > correctly IMO.
> >
> > Earlier non-frames-aware versions of lynx Do The Right Thing and show
> > the full html on the frameset page below the frame options; not doing
> > so is lossy html rendering, and I don't like it one bit.
>
> Excerpt from URL quoted above:
>
> <NOFRAMES>
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><!--
> function setLang(n) {
> queryss.document.spacesearch.iso639.selectedIndex=n;
> }
> // -->
> <BODY>
>
> There is no end-tag for the SCRIPT element.
Aha!
Mea culpa; now that's added, lynx now does exactly The Right Behaviour
that I would expect, and shows the frames-fallthrough HTML.
> There is no "full html" on the frameset page for lynx to show, since it
> all has become part of your SCRIPT element.
I wasn't aware that </SCRIPT> was mandatory; I was under the
impression that it was optional a la </P>, with the next valid HTML
tag (BODY, in this case) implicitly terminating it. At least, that's
what naive none-script-aware browsers would do...
> Seems to be just the kind of error that validation would quickly reveal.
<URL:http://www.hensa.ac.uk/html-val-svc/>
doesn't get very far on Wilbur or Mozilla. Doctypes and validators lag
behind browser implementations - is there a validator that can pick up
on SCRIPT?
Thanks,
L.
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