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Re: LYNX-DEV standards status of <TD "WIDTH=xx%"> ?
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Philip Webb |
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Re: LYNX-DEV standards status of <TD "WIDTH=xx%"> ? |
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Wed, 3 Dec 1997 17:22:39 -0500 (EST) |
971203 Bela Lubkin wrote:
> Please see http://www.armory.com/~filbo/sco_links.html for reference.
> The page contains a table with three columns.
> Each table element is introduced with:
>
> <TD WIDTH=33% ALIGN=CENTER> contents-of-element </TD>
>
> What is the status of this "WIDTH=" tag, WRT various HTML standards?
> One of the recurring reasons stated for Lynx's inability to render
> tables nicely is that it cannot determine column widths in advance.
> Here is a mechanism by which the page author can *state* column widths,
> inline to the table. In this case Lynx could simply allocate 33%
> (best approximation) of the available row space, and render the contents
> of the element (as much as will fit). Since it's in terms of percentages
> and since we can choose to render the elements incompletely,
> this doesn't require horizontal scrolling.
>
> Meanwhile, I've hacked the page up to display "better" under Lynx
> under http://www.armory.com/~filbo/test_links.html.
using 2-7 on test_links , i get the following fair result:
[1][LINK] [2][USEMAP]
. . . . . . . Free Software Links
Last Updated: Monday Dec 01, 1997 at 14:43:47 PST
[3]SCO Download Center [4]Free UNIX [5]Java
[6]SCO Related FTP Sites [7]SCO Internet Resources [8]Freebird (UnixWare)
[9]Oakland Univ. (Xenix) [10]Celestial Systems, Inc. [11]XeniTec Consultin
g Services
[12]SIU (Unix & Opendesktop) [13]Robert Lipe's Home Page [14]Robert Lipe's GN
U Dev Sys
[15]4Front Audio Apps [16]Xaudio MPEG Audio Player [17]Lxrun Linux Emul
ator
[18]Mini-SQL [19]The GNU Project [20]HyperNews Home
[21]Hypermail [22]LLNL Xdir [23]Xpdf Home Page
[24]Xv [25]The GIMP [26]Not-So-Bad Distr
ibution
[27]Astrolog [28]WINE [29]Mesa 3-D graphic
s library
[30]Lynx [31]Xmcd [32]Xanim
[33]RealAudio Player [34]Bzip2 [35]FreeBSD Stuff
[36]MySQL [37]freeWAIS-sf [38]Linux Apps & Uti
ls
[39]Window Managers [40]Pov-Ray [41]Free Widget Foun
dation set
[42]Egcs GNU C Compiler [43]LWGate WWW mailing lists [44]Glimpse filesyst
em search
[45]PHP/FI Home Page [46]XSwallow Plugin [47]Isearch Search E
ngine
[48]Fetchmail Home Page [49]Univ. of Washington IMAP [50]The Spam Bouncer
[51]Linux Online! [52]MPEGTV Home Page [53]ACME Laboratorie
s
[54]X-Mame (Emulator) [55]Game ROM images [56]More Game ROM im
ages
[57]X11 contrib at sunsite [58]sunsite's Linux archive [59]The X Window Sys
tem
[60]Internet Software Consortium ([61]BIND, [62]DHCP and [63]INN)
[64]Other Sites
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(PW again:) this looks promising. any thoughts or improvements, anyone?
and nice idea, Bela.
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