Alan Trick wrote:
Does anyone actually use lynx anymore though (except sysadmins who
haven't realises that VMS is not the lastest thing out there)? AFAIK
links, w3m, and other text browsers are far more popular. All these
other browsers preserve table structure.
A quick check to the server of my university reveals, they only have
Lynx installed. The another university where I previously were, also
had only lynx in their server. Which means anyone who is locked behind
a text terminal (and there were number of those) are happily reading
their mail with pine and surfing with Lynx.
Ben Buchanan wrote:
I thought the more recent versions of Lynx supported tables?
Yes, Lynx indeed supports tables, but the support is a bit limited.
If the table row fits on a single line on text screen, then the
row is displayed using a nice tabular format. But when there is
too much text in a row, all the cells are displayed on separate lines.
In short, it means that Lynx can quite well handle tables, when they
are used for tabular data, but when it comes to layout tables - forget it.
Here's a lynx screenshot from my homepage (triin.net):
When we look at only the valid pages, then the XHTML 1.0 Strict has
climbed from forth place (23 pages) to third (31 pages) and therefore
switched places with HTML 4.0 Transitional
CAPTION: Invalid pages
Document type Number of pages Change
HTML 4.01 Transitional 3191 -165
HTML 4.0 Transitional 1485 -384
XHTML 1.0 Transitional 705 +163
HTML 4.01 Frameset 222 +16
HTML 3.2 212 -268
XHTML 1.0 Strict 83 -7
XHTML 1.1 55 +20
Figure 1. Changes in the use of DTD-s on invalid pages. The increase
is marked with green and decrease with red (brighter then green). All
the other figures in this page use the same colors in exactly the same
meaning.
Rene Saarsoo
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