lynx-dev Re: lynx timeline

[Ilya Zakharevich]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 03:42:06PM -0700, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
>> I think the following updates should be done before we lieve the dev
?> branch:

Thomas replied:

  that would be nice, but it's almost 2 years from the last release.

This argument works both ways: after waiting 2 years, another month is
peanuts; while waiting *another* couple of years for such things is
too long.

>   a) working support for multiline cells in tables;
> 
>   b) <table> should switch the style to left alignment;
> 
>   c) bzip2 builtin (if a library is present);  for help files too...
> 
>   d) no-cache should be ignorable per lynx.cfg;
> 
>   e) expiration date should be ignorable (best in two steps: I should
>      be able to request "no expiration in less than 6 min", AND I
>      should be able to request "ask-with-default-no for expiration
>      dates below 1.5 hour").
> 
>   f) If a document is in the cache (or the rendering is in memory), on
>      reload it should not be cleared from the cache until the
>      connection to the server is opened; if the connection fails, the
>      user should have a choice to reuse the old version;
> 
>   g) v with multi-bookmarks should do auto-editing.

To Henry:

  I know that bzlib2 has zlib-compatibility API; it should be very easy
  to use this API to convert zlib-support to zlib-and-bzlib2 support.

Thanks,
Ilya

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