On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:45:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> on the left size some blank columns are always present. > > -- comment re hacking source snipped -- > > isn't it time to remove this rather burocratic left-over (smile) ?
I wouldn't call it a "burocratic (sic) left-over". In fact, I find it highly useful. For one thing, without those spaces, it's impossible to tell the difference between an H2 header and a single line paragraph, which makes it very difficult to scan through the headers in a web page when searching for something, or when trying to get a rough idea of a web page's content. In fact, if you look through the src/DefaultStyle.c file at the number of spaces in the various structures, you'll find that information very useful in understanding web pages. For example, an H1 header is always centered (presumably because it's usually used for the title of the page). The rest of the headers are indented progressively by even numbers of spaces; i.e. H2 headers are indented zero spaces, H3 headers two spaces, H4 headers four spaces, etc. Since normal text is indented by three spaces, which is an odd number, it will never line up with a header, so it's impossible to mistake a single-line paragraph for a header. Blockquotes are indented five spaces, which is also an odd number, and will therefore also never line up with a header. And on and on. Since Lynx can't have text in varying sizes and fonts to differentiate these things, I think that the various numbers of spaces used to indent things can be used, and is used, very effectively, to serve that purpose. Perhaps these things should be documented somewhere so that users under- stand why things are as they are. I certainly don't want the defaults to change, and if I were to change them for some purpose (such as a small screen), I would want to change more than the default for normal text, so that the various parts of a web page would still be distinguish- able. You definitely don't want normal text lined up with any of your headers, for example, so you might want to increase the indents for each of those by two. You might also want to indent preformatted text three spaces to set it apart. Chuck _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
