On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 01:58:59PM -0700, Seth House wrote:
> Also many sites misuse tables. Try using Lynx to visit someone's blog
> or another modern site that doesn't use tables for layout, it's
> gorgeous. I have found that for displaying tabular data, Lynx can be
Lynx still botches some very simple, non-layout tables, especially if
there is a <center> tag in or around the table. Lynx renders such tables
as a long vertical string of cells. AFAIKT, Lynx can't handle long
strings within a single cell, i.e., can't wrap lines within a cell, either.
The worst problem I find is that Lynx doesn't line up the cells in a
straight column down the page, but rather squeezes the content to the
left. There's no way to know what <td> goes with what <th>.
If you need table support, "w3m" is the best I've found. Lynx can't even
come close to handing the output of xlhtml (Excel to HTML converter), but
I have yet to see a sheet of reasonable size that "w3m" can't make legible.
$0.02
__Henry
"Using Lynx is like wearing a really good pair of shades: cuts out
the glare and harmful UV (ultra-vanity), and you feel so-o-o COOL."
-- me, March 1999
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