Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx & Tables

[Michael Ritzert]

> 
> On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, mischa wrote:
> 
> > Can you please tell me if there is going to be a lynx which will support
> > tables ?
> > Because I really like lynx, and we are using a lot of tables :)
> 
> The closest thing so far is an awk script connected to a proxy I have at
> www.mich.com/~thomas/ftp as lxprox.c - it spawns the awk script that
> preprocesses tables into <PRE> sections.  I still need to update it since
> I fixed the original awk script.
> 
> Rendering tables is a suprisingly complex process.  My t2tgrnest finally
> does the right thing (except VALIGN) with just text.  It gets much worse
> due to bad HTML.
> 
> Integrating the function internally to lynx will not happen very quickly.

Has anybody looked at the table stuff of mMosaic (a derivative of ncsa mosaic
with usable table support among other goodies) or chimera 2 or arena ? 
How hard would it be to port this stuff to lynx? 

Michael
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