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Re: LYNX-DEV I18N work to submit
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David Woolley |
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Re: LYNX-DEV I18N work to submit |
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Wed, 27 Aug 1997 23:59:13 +0100 (BST) |
Sorry to be picky, but one of the strong points of the Lynx community
is using HTML as more than a page layout language.
>
> <TITLE>lynx(1)</TITLE>
Titles should attempt to be globally unique and context free. lynx(1) is
OK for an <H1> but not for a <TITLE>
> <B>lynx --
^^^ This, as with all physical markup is considered deprecated
by HTML 4.0, and I think gets warnings from weblint.
> <!--Meta NM "lynx"-->
This looks like it's from an authoring tool. In my
view this should be done as a real tag, not a null
SGML directive with the comment containing the markup.
> distributed information browser for the World Wide Web
> </B>
> <!--Meta DN "distributed information browser for the World Wide Web"-->
> <P>
^^^ Isn't <P> technically a container; in which case this
is an empty block and I don't think <P> is allowed
to be empty. You should rely on the browser to do
sensible spacing, or use style sheets**.
> <H2>Synopsis</H2>
> lynx [ <B><I>options</I></B> ] [ <B><I>path</I></B> or <B><I>URL</I></B> ]
^^^^^ Again deprecated markup. I think this should be
<VAR> but I don't have an HTML reference
immediately to hand. The whole line should be <CODE>.
> <H2>Description</H2>
> <DL COMPACT>
^^^^^^^ This is deprecated in HTML 4.0, but
probably mainly because of a failure
of browsers to implement it, rather
than because it is intrinsically bad.
> <P><DT><B>-</B><DD>
^^^ I'm pretty sure that this is not
permitted in this context - I think
only <DL> is allowed, but in any case
it seems to contradict the COMPACT
attribute. I don't have the DTD to
hand to double check.
> <A HREF=/cgi-bin/man/man?lynx+1#lynxGet_Data><B>-get_data</B></A>
" " Should be quoted
^^^ I think there is a logical
style for defining reference,
but this is also a style
sheets case.
> For example:
> <BR>
> <BR>
Some, if not all versions of Lynx, will
collapse the <BR>s. If you want to mark
this off, try <BLOCKQUOTE> and be
prepared to live with the browser's
rendition.
> <B>lynx -dump http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx.html</B>
> <P>
> See also
> <A HREF=/cgi-bin/man/man?lynx+1#lynxCrawl><B>-crawl</B></A>.
^^^^^^^
You don't want cgi-bins, unless you
are hosting this on a fast server.
Also note that at least one man cgi
script I've seen is unsafe when used
with the Gnu man.
> <P><DT><Up arrow><DD>
> <P><DT><Down arrow><DD>
> scrolls through hypertext links
This is a null definition for
up arrow, not a combined definition.
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> <I>address@hidden</I> with ``subscribe lynx-dev''
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ href=mailto:
** Style sheets is a bit optimistic, as I've just been discovering that
the style sheet support in MSIE is incompatible with the CSS spec (no
error recovery from unknown constructs, and very few actually implemented;
moreover I gave up trying to navigate their site for documentation on what
is implemented.)
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