On Sun Dec 29 16:32:40 2002 Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:10:45PM +0100, Peter Rasmussen wrote: >> On Sun Dec 29 15:07:03 2002 David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> <A HREF="list_one_subject.cgi?397795902 000 DVD_1043951012 00000 >list_subjects.cgi">DVD All Zones</A> >> > >> >This link is malformed. >> > >> OK, I accept that, but then why is Lynx the only browser that can't/doesn't >> deal with it? > >not the only one (Netscape 4.76 doesn't appear to escape the spaces). >I also tried w3m, which does escape them. As David said, this is a >matter of error recovery. The remote site is free to discard the >unescaped spaces, which may not be what you intended. To make it >unambiguous, we should escape them also. > OK, at least having understood this problem and how to deal with it I could say I am satisfied, and I won't continue the discussion :-)
I accept that I didn't test it with neither N4.76 or any other N4.* browser because I don't see them as being actively maintained and developed anymore, thus 'dead'. Also I didn't test it with w3m that I only know the existance of, but when it gets to using a textbrowser, Lynx is what I use. I always attempt to develop against a standard and then test it against well known and much used browsers, and to me those are Netscape6, Mozilla1.*, Opera6 and sometimes IE5, which I don't have myself. Initially when I couldn't make it work with Lynx it was put on the nice-to-have list, and I have now reached that issue on my list :-) Fortunately it seems that Lynx in fact is actively developed so I will later come forward with some other pet peeves I have with it. Regarding the ' ' vs. %20 issue, isn't there a standard to hold it against or is it an implementation issue? Thanks a lot for the work you guys do, Peter ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
