Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: please say "THIS IS A TABLE!"

[David Combs]

> From address@hidden Sun Mar 29 04:17:05 1998
> From: David Woolley <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: please say "THIS IS A TABLE!"
> 
> > 
> > I disagree.  Most pages that I look at do NOT have tables
> > of them.  
> 
> Well, as you keep insisting, here it is.  
> 
> Could I advise that this not be included in the official sources and 
> insist that it either be disabled by conditional compilation or turned
> off by default, if it is included.
> 
> It has mainly been done to demonstrate how many pages actually contain
> hidden tables.  I've only done a cursory analysis of the code, and, although
> I don't expect anything to break, there may be cases where the output 
> doesn't format well.
> 
> --- /usr/src/lynx/lynx2-7-2/src/HTML.c        Thu Jan 22 23:33:02 1998
> +++ lynx2-7-2t/src/HTML.c     Sat Mar 28 20:48:37 1998
> @@ -4749,6 +4749,7 @@
>           me->current_default_alignment = styles[HTML_DLEFT]->alignment;
>       }
>       LYCheckForID(me, present, value, (int)HTML_TABLE_ID);
> +        HTML_put_string(me, "[******** Start of Table *********]");
>       break;
>  
>      case HTML_TR:
> @@ -5996,6 +5997,7 @@
>       break;
>  
>      case HTML_TABLE:
> +        HTML_put_string(me, "[******** End of Table *********]");
>          me->inTABLE = FALSE;
>       if (!strcmp(me->sp->style->name, "Preformatted")) {
>           break;
> 


Please, NOT via compilation option, but YES do it via
a RUN-time option.

For those of us who use lynx on an ISP (shell acct),
where we merely "run" some one else's version (and thanks
much to them!)