Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 05:21:37 -0800 (AKDT) From: groggy@iname.com To: freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: lynx & PRE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980926045440.1969B-100000@abc.xyz.net>
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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 ...) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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