Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: please say "THIS IS A TABLE!"

[David Woolley]

>    Viewable with HTML 2.0 - compatible browsers such as [1]Netscape. We
                   ^^^^^^^^

This states that you don't need table support to view the page, as does
the lack of DOCTYPE, although the latter incompatible with the use of
many of the constructs in the page!

> 
> Actually, on doing the \, you see that it is indeed a TABLE --
> meaning you must instead DOWNLOAD it and display via
> NETSCRAPE or something -- but no HINT is given of that.

I don't think any hint is needed; it is pretty obvious by looking at it
and by considering that nearly every page has tables these days.  The latter
point, in particular, would mean that any warning by Lynx would mess up the
dislay even more and would frustrate those trying to do tables in a Lynx
friendly way.

Incidentally, if people want an example of text mode tables, they might
look at the "alternative" mode in the WWW Consortium's Amaya browser.
Note that this doesn't do any clever column width processing, so headings
tend to be awkwardly wrapped.  Note that this browser is missing frames.