On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:42:05PM -0800, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > At 07:31a -0500 03/13/2004, Thomas Dickey didst inscribe upon an > electronic papyrus: > > >On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > > > > > Is there some way to increase the repertoire of content-types that > > > Lynx will display via HTTP? Currently, I have to save a file to disk > > > in order to view it, which is a time-wasting hassle. > > > > > > JavaScript files and certain charsets are what Lynx refuses to > > > display via http, yet displays perfectly fine if I 1)view source > > > 2)print to file 3)open file. > > > >Lynx doesn't interpret JavaScript - that's a lot of code that no one's > >developed (for Lynx of course). > > Not interpret. Just display as if content-type were text/plain.
that's still interpretation. Whatever is done to put it on the screen is interpreting it in some manner (and no browser simply writes text to the screen without doing this). > >Character sets are a different matter - some interpretations that we > >might change (see some recent discussion of BIG5). > > Again, I don't care about interpretation; I just want it to display > as plain text. > > Is there some setting I can adjust? JavaScript is handled as a comment; that's visible in the source display. While some fragments of JavaScript are useful for navigation, generally this is not true. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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