Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx and JavaScript -Reply

[David Combs]

> From address@hidden Sat Nov 16 01:16:46 1996
> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 02:00:22 -0700
> From: address@hidden (Scott McGee (Personal))
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx and JavaScript -Reply
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> that they need alt strings in images (you should see the Phisics pages!) or
> actually make all their links point to live pages! (Physics again as a counter
> example!) It doesn't help that most of them have been there much longer than

I say again, if not a "published book", at least an article
published, "HOW NOT TO WRITE HTML", or "COMMON GROSS HTML ERRORS",
with examples from the net, WITH SITES NAMED!!!!!

Also, a kept-current such article, ON the net, that shows
the horrible html that some sites have.

Also (ha ha ha ha !!!!) a list of categories of html errors.

With this list, "grade" each page that gets parsed by lynx,
and keep a COUNT of how many of each type of error occurs
per www-page.  Why the count?  So you can PUBLISH it!

Anyway, lynx-option to keep local persistent data base
(just a bunch of C-structs: date, site name, integer array counts)
via hash-buckets, read-in at lynx-startup.

From time to time, email or ftp it off to central lynx location,
(rm it locally), where it can be accumulated for use in
that file of bad-lynx-sites.

With enough PR to various PC and UNIX and WEB magazines, maybe
this thing will get known, and become EMBARASSING....


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