Re: LYNX-DEV Long lines in HTML source, images without ALT

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Hynek Med wrote:

> But I was thinking about horizontal scrolling or just wrapping the source
> where it overlaps..

As I mentioned in my previous missive (my short notes always turn into
missives...maybe it's majordomo :) ), it's been suggested about wrapping,
and I think that the answer had to do with the way that Lynx handles text
by just copying it into the HTML structure (HTStream?) and if you made it
wrap the source, it would also wrap PRE formatted text which is
undesirable.  Perhaps Fote or someone more familiar with it could restate
it or point to the archives of the previous discussion.

> Me too, but some URLs are very long so you can't see the ending and some
> users are not advanced.. Of course, the proper solution is to make nice
> descriptive ALTs..

Yes, the localhost URL's get long here.  The path to my home directory is:

/users/student3/cosc/cosc0065

Add to that the file://localhost/, public_html and any subdirectories, and
you're way off the screen. :)

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