On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 08:39:52AM EDT, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Tue, Jul 04, 2006:
> > On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:15:44AM EDT, Thomas Adam wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 01:51:44AM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> > > > I also have a minor problem with sites that use a screen-wide color
> > > > background to highlight headings. But this may be due to my terminal
> > > > (xterm+gnu/screen) configuration. I have this problem with the gentoo
> > > > main page for instance and would be curious to know if others see the
> > > > same thing I am seeing.
> > > 
> > > I couldn't say -- the page looks fine to me.   You could always take a
> > > screenshot.
> > 
> > http://www.geocities.com/cga9999/gen.png
> > 
> > normally the purplish-blue background of "Gentoo Weekly Newsletter" ..
> > etc. should extend as far as the column at the extreme right of the
> > screen.  Here, it stops with the text .. right after the '6' of 'July
> > 2006".  Good news if you don't see this, then likely it's only a matter
> > of my configuring my terminal correctly.
> 
> I see this too and it has to do with ELinks only painting/applying the
> background color for text since it doesn't now anything about stuff like
> the CSS box model. 

Thanks. So it's basically one symptom of the same general problem with
CSS, right? Is there anything in the works regarding correct rendering
of those pages?

It appears pages that use this model are becoming increasingly
widespread.

Until recently the main page of Yahoo! sites rendered very nicely but
about a week ago it a appears that they radically changed the layout -
instead of having everything on the page, they shoved much of the stuff
into tabs etc.. so in a gui browser you have to click here and there to
find what you are looking for.. 

The interesting fact is that the US version still plays well with elinks
while the European versions I have checked do not.. Although at first
glance they appear very similar when displayed by mozilla.

Here for example:

http://www.yahoo.com
http://uk.yahoo.com

Is this the same general problem?

If you know the site well and the structure of its home page it's not
too hard to find what you are looking for but for sites you are not
familiar with it's a bit harder.

> Tables are treated in a special way so that is why
> you see the background color applying correctly to the table cells on
> that page.

point taken.. I had actually not noticed that.
> 
> There might be hope in the future since the a few ELinks developers are
> talking about meeting at the end of August and this would indeed be a
> fun thing to work on (if nobody gets it working before that ;).
> 
Somewhat answers my above questions..  Sorry I missed that part.

I take it that when someone comes up with a 'fix' the end result would
be, that the two pages above would look identical?  Or would this only
affect the minor background color on the gentoo page?

If the latter, many thanks in advance to whoever takes on this
challenge.. would make a world of difference, IMHO.. Especially since
there appear to be more & more such pages.

Thanks

cga
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