Unterminated Anchors (was Re: LYNX-DEV <br> in link text)

[James Elkinton]

On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Philip Webb wrote:

> another problem i encountered (again) yesterday is link numbers
> which you can't access with the arrow keys:
> ie they skip from [8] to [10], even tho' [9] is shown on the screen
> & can be reached by entering  9 .
> the site was  www.bankofengland.co.uk/  (who say they will correct it)
> & the problem was caused by an unclosed anchor.
> this has to be a bug in Lynx: it presumably closes the previous <A>
> when it encounters the next <A> & assigns a number to the faulty one,
> but doesn't register it wherever its arrow-key directions are stored.

Ugh.. this drives me nuts too, but in a different way: If a </A> tag is
not used in a table of links, all of the links in the table are all one
link -- the first link of the table!  YUK!
 
The cases in point:
  http://www.htc.net/~brianj/gsccc/psx/index2.html
  http://www.htc.net/~brianj/gsccc/psx/index3.html

...and any other page he has that uses a table, but these are the ones I
need to access correctly.  None of the anchors are terminated -- apparently,
Netscape sees the table terminators and assumes anchor termination...or some
such broken crap.  Is it possible to toggle this ability in Lynx?  Is it
already in there and I haven't seen it?
 
I've been downloading his pages and re-editing them into my own version by
hand...not having to mess with that anymore would be a godsend.
 

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