Re: [Lynx-dev] reading code section

2020-11-21 Thread Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev
2020/11/21 12:11 ... Tom Masterson: This is al a good discussion but it does not answer my question.  For some pages I can modify the html and make it readable, however there a number of sites out in the wild that use the ... to show coding.  I would like to be able to read that code without

Re: [Lynx-dev] Removing bookmarks

2020-09-21 Thread Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev
2020/09/21 13:50 ... Travis Siegel: Is your bookmarks file in the root dire ctory? I find that windows really doesn't like users using files that are in the root of a drive. If it's in a subdirectory, then obviously this isn't the problem, but figured I'd mention it, just in case. Actually,

Re: [Lynx-dev] Adding $SOCKS5_PROXY support, changing command line option

2020-08-08 Thread Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev
2020/08/07 20:03 ... Thorsten Glaser: Using (char *)-1 can cause traps on some platforms, or the compiler to replace the entire codepath (including backwards!) with nōnsense. And if the platform is x86, what of long and short pointers? Or do all the C-compilers use only the longest? If

Re: [Lynx-dev] the sun, the sun

2020-08-08 Thread Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev
2020/08/08 17:43 ... Steffen Nurpmeso: Being all in favour of keeping UTC aligned with the sun, whatever this means. I suspect that it is time to detach the physical second, that physicists use, from the second that is one 86400th of a day, and find a definition of "day" that depends on our

Re: [Lynx-dev] rendering (0x97)

2020-07-01 Thread Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev
2020/06/30 10:31 ... David Woolley: Are you sure that the browser is given free reign?  I thought the HTML5 principle is that every browser should produce the same output regardless of whether the document was syntactically valid, and that is why they define error cases in such detail. I

Re: [Lynx-dev] rendering (0x97)

2020-06-30 Thread Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev
2020/06/28 13:34 ... Thomas Dickey: but in the meantime, the html5 crowd declared that iso-8859-1 is identical to cp1252 I, too, think the crowd crazie, for other reasons besides: when I heard of this crowd I glanced at the website, and found great effort exerted on the meaning of strings

Re: [Lynx-dev] rendering (0x97)

2020-06-30 Thread Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev
2020/06/29 14:43 ... Mouse: I hav seen that, and , in Microsoft HTML from Word. That means little. Just because a Microsoft program generates something does not mean it's compatible with non-Microsoft software, and sometimes does not even mean it's compatible with other Microsoft software, and

Re: [Lynx-dev] rendering (0x97)

2020-06-29 Thread Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev
2020/06/28 18:28 ... David Woolley: but if they are sending over the wire, rather than the a byte containing the value 151, the contents encoding wouldn't matter, as entities are interpreted in Unicode, What do you mean? The actual Unicode number is U+2014, or 8212, and is simply cp1252 in

Re: [Lynx-dev] copy URL to clipboard shortcut

2020-04-20 Thread Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev
2020/04/20 02:41 ... s...@stof999.ch: it would be greath to have a shortcut for copying the URL of the file currently viewing INTO clipboard. Well, one can assign a key to "TO_CLIPBOARD". I assign "S" to it. See the key-map, at first assigned to "k".

Re: [Lynx-dev] changing lynx default homepage from the comand line?

2019-11-16 Thread Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev
2019/11/15 18:26 ... Larry Hynes via Lynx-dev: If you can set the WWW_HOME environment variable, lynx will use that as the startfile. I use this method, although I have complete control of my "lynx.cfg". ___ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org

Re: [Lynx-dev] google problem

2019-11-16 Thread Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev
2019/11/15 12:03 ... dan d.: Google made a server side change to affect chrome behavior on wed., It was a mess. Wasn't that about the time the lynx behavior changed? -- Google Chrome experiment crashes browser tabs, impacts companies worldwide

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and amazon?

2019-09-03 Thread Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev
2019/09/02 16:43 ... Karen Lewellen: everything from the poor quality of image and sound O yeah: I see, but in some of those pictures, I can only guess that the intended thing is actually shown, and first attempt often fails. ___ Lynx-dev mailing

Re: [Lynx-dev] ... Accessible Search Engines ... the nasty mouse.

2019-08-31 Thread Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev
2019/08/31 16:31 ... Karen Lewellen: Links, the chain and elinks can be low graphics browsers  that match one fundamental level of compliance, that *everything* works with the keyboard. O, I love that. I wish I could forgo the mouse for everything but drawing. My showlder always grows sore.

Re: [Lynx-dev] "Correct" tab-stops?

2019-07-19 Thread Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev
2018/10/29 04:07 ... Bela Lubkin: # "vt100" -- correct messed up tab stops on VT100 / ANSI terminals I hav long believed that the right thing is to make no assumptions about tab stops. ___ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org

Re: [Lynx-dev] Displaying a pdf live on the Fly?

2019-06-04 Thread Halaasz Saandor
2019/06/03 22:58 ... Tim Chase: The quality of the output depends largely on how the PDF was created, so I have some mostly-pure-text PDFs where it works great; and I have some PDFs that are full of graphics and poorly laid-out that are next to useless when piped through pdftotext. YMMV. And

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and login spam

2019-04-17 Thread Halaasz Saandor
2019/04/17 10:31 ... Jude DaShiell: Mozilla is finally correcting an error with web pages that prompt multiple times for visitors to log in. What mozilla is doing is allowing a maximum of two login prompts then suppressing any further login prompts from web pages. Does lynx already handle this

Re: [Lynx-dev] Trouble using your browser.

2018-11-12 Thread Halaasz Saandor
2018/11/11 14:26 ... Rory Mason: Hi, I'm using Ubuntu 16.04. I am trying to use the search engine Ramblr, and whenever I try to open a web page on it, I have to use another browser. I don't seem to be able to open web pages using this terminal based browser. Is it possible to use

Re: [Lynx-dev] What blanks the blank spaces at the beginning of a line?

2018-10-29 Thread Halaasz Saandor
2018/10/28 06:41 ... Thomas Dickey: Lynx puts blanks at the beginning of each line (except headers, etc) as part of its built-in style. And I was glad when you implemented "NO_MARGINS"-"-nomargins". To me it always seemed backwards that the bulk of the text was indented and the headers were

Re: [Lynx-dev] Links do not work

2018-10-29 Thread Halaasz Saandor
2018/10/29 03:23 ... Riku Virtanen: now I noticed whole error: Alert: unable to create secure connection to remote host. Have I, i.e. compiled Lynx with wrong settings etc? Are your certificates up to date? ___ Lynx-dev mailing list

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx doesn't track use for most sites

2018-09-21 Thread Halaasz Saandor
2018/09/21 11:50 ... Karen Lewellen: Why would I  want The New Yorker to limit my reading? It is not hard for me to imagine that the New Yorker would want to limit it. ___ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org

Re: [Lynx-dev] making money from the news

2018-09-21 Thread Halaasz Saandor
2018/09/21 06:15 ... David Woolley: Remember, though, that news sites are not there to provide news.  They are there to make money. It is quite a contrast from the founding of most newspapers. For most of the founders making money was a necessary evil. Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift had

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx renders as q

2018-09-03 Thread Halaasz Saandor
2018/09/02 08:48 ... russellb...@gmail.com: lynx renders 3c8 & 3a8, psi & Psi, as q & Q - q? Well, the right prong chopped off, the rest of psi looks slightly like "q", no? ___ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org

Re: [Lynx-dev] TLS-"transport layer security" & LYNX

2018-07-29 Thread Halaasz Saandor
2018/07/24 04:14 ... David Woolley: In particular, having a non-HTTPS site will result in appearing a long way down the Google search results. I try'd that with a Google-search for something local to me, "toledo lucas public library" and did not see that effect, but saw something doubtless

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx un-renders

2018-06-04 Thread Halaasz Saandor
2018/05/28 04:57 ... Thorsten Glaser: Now the codepage 1252 is a superset of latin1. latin1 leaves 0x80‥0x9F for C1 control characters (and latin1 is exactly the first 256 codepoints of Unicode), while cp1252 assigns stuff like € and “” inside that block. I suppose the following is

Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx does NOT default to https support

2018-05-22 Thread Halaasz Saandor
2018/05/22 04:19 ... David Woolley: It appears to be a policy pushed by Google, and it looks as though http sites will lose their position in Google's search results. If you impose a no https policy on the internet, you will find that you can only access sites that don't know or care about

Re: [Lynx-dev] Website shows blank page in Lynx browser

2018-04-11 Thread Halaasz Saandor
2018/04/11 21:27 ... Jude DaShiell: What would be really neat if it happened is if Tim Burnersley went and did a class action suit Burnersley? How about Berners-Lee? ___ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org

Re: [Lynx-dev] help on lynx compilation

2018-03-29 Thread Halaasz Saandor
2018/03/29 08:53 ... clr.g...@use.startmail.com: I forgot to say that I tried to install the 2.8.8 rel.1 version from the win32 installer I found here :http://invisible-island.net/lynx/ but when I start Lynx, I have a stealthy message : "Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host." and the