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

[David Combs]

1) it could be an OPTION.

2) I myself CANNOT recognize a table printed non-table by Lynx!
  (What about a BLIND person?  How is he/she supposed to know
   that the info should be mentally reorganized into TWO dimensional
    GROUPINGS)

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> If I remember correctly,  couple versions ago lynx used to flash some
> message like "Warning: page contains tables" or so,  or does my memory
> completely deceive me?
> 
> I usually can recognize a table which is supposed to be a table.  It
> could be nice to have lynx insert something like [TABLE BEGINS] and
> [TABLE ENDS] around it.  However,  there would be a problem with nested
> tables,  it could be quite ugly. 
> 
> Also,  many pages use tables to achieve some stupid layout,  and in this
> case you probably don't want to know that it is a table.  Such pages are
> usually messy enough without lynx inserting anything extra to them.
> 
> -- 
> Jan Hlav\'{a}\v{c}ek
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