On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:23:56 -0800, Walter Ian Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:53p +0000 01/30/2005, Thorsten Glaser didst inscribe upon an > electronic papyrus: > > >Stef Caunter dixit: > > > > >On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >> surely, anyone outside the poorest parts of the World today > > >> has access to Firefox, Konqueror & other graphical browsers, > > >> which display WWW pages as their authors intend them to be seen. > > > >FUD. > > > >* I design my web pages (e.g. http://mirbsd.mirsolutions.de/ ) to > > be optimised for Lynx and still look not too bad in Konqueror, > > Me too. ;) > > > and be XHTML/1.1 compliant. > > Screw xhtml. <g> I'm sticking with HTML, just like I stick with Lynx. :-) > I expect both to outlive me. ;)
You meant that tongue-in-cheek, I know. I see the broad adoption of XHTML as a boon for Lynx since it facilitates more attention payed to document structure and the probable end of using tables for layout (as we've discussed (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2005-01/msg00123.html)). This may call for a new thread but, what kind of attention have the Lynx developers been focusing on XHTML or the Semantic Web? I'm new to the list, but a quick poke through the archives didn't turn up much. - whiteinge > > > >> Lynx still has important uses, but in limited contexts. > > > >No, Lynx is the primary browser for many people, including myself. > >I'm using it for about 98% of all websites. > > On the wonderfully graphic Mac OS X, I set up Lynx as my default browser. :D > But it's not sticking... think I need to add a plist to my > AppleScript applet to claim the MIME types and filename extensions... > perhaps I'll just copy/paste from Netscape.... > > > >But I won't see lynx marginalized here. For many people it is our primary > > >browser for HTTP; no one's personal usage has a priori primacy in > >a universal > > >context. The lynx browser is as useful as you choose to make it. > > > >And it's the only browser I know which supports > >* textfields-need-activation > > Qu'est-ce que c'est? > > >* navigation by numbering links and form fields > >* partial displaying with a threshold of 1 > > ? > > >* a source view starting where in the rendered form > > of the page you're in right now > > Eh? Is that a special setting? My Lynx always goes to the top of the page. > > The only "starting where..." that works for me is editing bookmarks, > but that only works right for a few hundred links; after that there's > a cumulative error in line counting. Perhaps I should report that > separately as a bug.... > > >* tables rendered in a way not trashing keyboard navigation > > when not using numbered > >* spawning $EDITOR on a form field (COOL!) > > OmniWeb has something similar -- click a tiny box in a corner of the > text field and up pops an editor window. > > >I miss a few things, but I can live with it. > >And not one of these features I miss does a > >graphical browser give me. > > P...r...0...n. LOL > > -boo > whose Lynx bookmark file is about a megabyte (to-do list: learn how to > manage > multiple bookmark files) > > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > Lynx-dev@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev > _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
