Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx hangs

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Philip Webb wrote:

> There's a definite problem: the page takes a long while to load,

...it came up immediately on one of my shell accounts - but that's 
probably a different configuration (no wide-character support on that box)

> meanwhile monopolising the CPU -- I can't switch desktops --
> & using swap (very unusual with  1 GB  memory).
> It does eventually load successfully with everything R-aligned (no table).

Everything was right-aligned when I viewed it.

> Using Epiphany 2.18.2 , the file opens at once:
> it's a badly colored table  3 col x 11 row .
>
> Dillo 0.8.6 shows a more complex table without colored background:
> again, no delay or misbehaviour when processing it.
>
> Konqueror 3.5.7 combines the bad background with the complex layout.
> Firefox 2.0.0.4 shows the same as Epiphany.
>
> It looks like bad HTML which is tripping Lynx up somehow.
> I have  TAGSOUP:YES  in  lynx.cfg .

tidy might have an opinion

> Lynx 2.8.7-d4 on KDE 3.5.7 on Gentoo Linux with AMD Athlon 2500+ .

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