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Subject: lynx & PRE
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it appears that the lynx developers have deemed it
necessary to cause problems for HTML developers
if they use anything other than pure ASCII test
inside PRE blocks.  you cannot use <IMG>,
or many other tags inside PRE blocks
without wreaking havoc.

as someone that took some pride in making HTML
pages friendly towards lynx, i just would like
to note my strong objections to this matter.

since lynx cannot utilize FRAMES, this destroys
all capabilities of designing well formatted
HTML pages of mixed graphics & text.  lynx
relied on embedding things within PRE
block for formatting without frames.

for example, try this with lynx 2.8:

[G1] text1   [G2] text2
[G1] text 1  [G2] text2
[G1] text  1 [G2] text2

with lynx 2.7, this was no problem.
i could have 2 perfectly aligned columns.
now, this is impossible.

you cannot say:

<PRE>
<IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G1]"> text1   <IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G2]"> text2
<IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G1]"> text 1  <IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G2]"> text2
<IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G1]"> text  1 <IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G2]"> text2
</PRE>

any longer.
nor can you get around things with:

<IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G1]"><PRE> text1   </PRE> (no CR/LF)
<IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G2]"><PRE> text2   </PRE>
<IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G1]"><PRE> text 1  </PRE> (no CR/LF)
<IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G2]"><PRE> text2   </PRE>
<IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G1]"><PRE> text  1 </PRE> (no CR/LF)
<IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G2]"><PRE> text2   </PRE>

since <PRE></PRE><PRE></PRE>
breaks up into 2 lines (3 in netscape).

this sucks ...
(IMHO, of course ...)


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