Re: lynx-dev STANDARDS-READY?

[Velanche Stewart]

Hi There:

Thanks very much for your e-mail. Apologies for taking
so long to reply. Can you tell me if there are plans
for the Lynx developers to implement CSS into the
browser? If so, to what extent will that standard be
supported?

Thanks again in advance.

Regards,
Velanche Stewart

--- David Woolley <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm trying to find out information as to whether
> or
> > not Lynx is CSS-compliant in any way (CSS 1 & 2),
> as
> 
> Lynx does not implement CSS.
> 
> > well as to see whether it's HTML 4.0 compliant.
> Also,
> 
> Lynx probably implements HTML 4 more accurately than
> IE4, although
> many web pages require one or more option to be
> selected to make it
> tolerate invalid HTML.  Lynx was written from the
> standpoint of parsing
> HTML according to the DTD, although there is a lot
> of pressure on the
> developers to mimic the incorrect and error recovery
> behaviour in the
> big two.
> 
> NB HTML 4 does not dictate the details of how the
> page should be rendered -
> if you want that, use a page description language
> like PDF or Postscript.
> 
> I am not aware of any complete implementations of
> HTML 4.0, not even
> Amaya.  Nor for that matter am I aware of complete
> CSS implementations,
> although IE5 might not be that far off.  Netscape 4
> CSS is fairly badly
> broken, to the extent that some CSS features may
> never be used properly
> because the won't degrade gracefully to NS4, even
> though they will do
> for non-CSS browsers.
> 
> Lynx definitely does implement HTTP more accurately
> than IE4/5 as Microsoft
> chose to ignore Content-Type headings in many cases.
> 

===
Velanche Stewart
Email: address@hidden
URL:   http://www.calpoly.edu/~vstewart
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