On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 05:42:48PM +0100, Peter Rasmussen wrote: > Here comes my pet-peeves that I have had for some time with Lynx, but that I > never got around to talk about. Being in the mood I'll go ahead :-) > > I believe they aren't just mis-configurations, but I could of course be wrong. > > 1.When asking to see the source by pressing '\' a new request is sent to the > server. Building 2.8.5dev12 with '--enable-source-cache' I hoped that it > wasn't so anymore, but as far as I can see in my Apache access_log it still > does. Have I been misled, or have I misunderstood?
probably the latter - I recall this being discussed a few months ago, and noticed that source-caching didn't handle this case (I agree it should). > 2.When entering text in a FORM, the page in Lynx is always a little messed up. > For example in linuxtoday.com talkbacks I get the following: ... > =========== > I didn't use the configure switch '--disable-forms-options' but let it build > with the defaults. > > The first lines can be dealt with and I have gotten used to it, but the actual > comments box (TEXTAREA) annoys me, because each line scrolls and only the > little window of the initial line width is viewed and only the designated lines > are allowed. It makes it very painful to use if you want to write something > longer than what the ROWS and COLS tags says. Either an external editor, eg. vi > or vim, should be spawned or the TEXTAREA editor in Lynx should be improved. well, you _can_ spawn an external editor. The builtin support is not good. > >From the same talkback experience I noticed that the resulting page doesn't > honour <BR> or <P> tags, at least not in the same way that Mozilla does. I have > no example right now and I don't want to mess with the time of LinuxToday > editors for that purpose, but the next time I write soemthing there I'll save > it and let you have a look at it, unless you know what it is about. ah - that's an area where we can't make everyone happy, since different browsers do interpret those differently for the amount of blank lines. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
