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David Woolley writes:
> I think you mean completely re-written. I'd advise looking at how
The changes are relatively simple, they're just extensive. Parsing
the HTML into a parse-tree and getting rid of the GridText monstrosity
would enable a whole slew of things like tables, frames, better
rendering, etc. But it's a lot of work, and Lynx would likely use
more memory and possibly redraw the screen a little slower. It's
a tradeoff. *shrug*
> much Mozilla has overrun and how many problems there are still with
> Amaya (and although that needs a clean object model for style sheets,
> it doesn't do Javascript).
Javascript was never a design goal for Amaya, though. It was always
the W3C's testbed HTML browser/editor combo. From "Weaving The Web",
[Amaya] is designed completely around the idea of interactively
editing and browsing hypertext, rather than simply processing raw
incoming HTML so it can be displayed on the user's screen. [...]
It is a great tool for developing new features, and for showing
how features from various text-editing programs can be combined
into one superior browser/editor, which will help people work
together.
> People who run latest generation GUI
> browsers are likely to be bigger spenders than people who run text
> only browsers, so most commercial sites can only commercially justify
> supporting them.
Cite? I've been hearing this in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
since 1995 as a reason for creating limited access sites and excluding
"poor Lynx users." IMO, it was rubbish then, and it's rubbish now.
I've spent, in the last month, about $400 on the web using SSL-enabled
Lynx alone.
With the person I live with, total income in this house is about
GBP80k/year and the only time a GUI browser gets fired up is to play the
Java games on tombola.com or jamba.co.uk.
Online shopping, betting, and pretty much everything that involves
spending money on the web happens via LynxSSL. Commercial sites should
be making much more of an effort to be open and accessible to Lynx
users -- I'd spend a lot more money on the web if I didn't have to
hand-hack my way around pointlessly Javascript'd forms and links.
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