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Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0
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Tom Zerucha |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0 |
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Wed, 26 Feb 1997 20:57:24 -0500 (EST) |
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Christopher R. Maden wrote:
> 2) Table support. A tree-based parser with error recovery, instead of
> a heuristic parser, will be better able to deal with tables or any
> other new "feature" that the browser vendors throw (up) at us. I
> know empirically that such a parser can be written that will deal
> with *most* HTML. We could keep the old parser as a fall-back in
> the case of really crappy HTML.
>
> Any comments on this?
>
> I can help a lot with the planning of the parser, and bits of the
> coding, but I'm not sure y'all want me actually writing the code. I'm
> very good at SGML (I do it for a living), and would love to help, but
> I'm a little weak on the C thing still.
I have a very good awk script (www.mich.com/~thomas/ftp as lxtabX.Y.tgz)
which parses tables properly (and one version can preprocess for Lynx).
The problem is that Lynx seems to use a stream based rendering, and you
don't know the correct width of the columns until you get to the last row.
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Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0, Wayne Buttles, 1997/02/26
Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0, root, 1997/02/26
Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0, Christopher R. Maden, 1997/02/26
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0,
Tom Zerucha <=
Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0, Rob Partington, 1997/02/26
Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0, Scott McGee (Personal), 1997/02/25
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0, Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim), 1997/02/25
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0, Jason Baker, 1997/02/26
- Proposal on numbering Scheme (was: Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0), Michael Ritzert, 1997/02/26
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0, Tom Zerucha, 1997/02/26
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0, Larry W. Virden, x2487, 1997/02/27
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0, Duncan Hill, 1997/02/27
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0, Alan Cox, 1997/02/27
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0, T.E.Dickey, 1997/02/27