Re: lynx-dev 4 suggestions

[Matt Ackeret]

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Axel Boldt wrote:
>Four quick suggestions:
>
>* If I say neVer when asked the cookie question, I mean never. The
>  next lynx session shouldn't ask me the same question again.

Someone else mentioned the command line.  If you DO use cookies, they aren't
saved for the next session either.

Is the neVer for each particular site?  I think so..  You know, some sites
are unusable without cookies.. So I don't think it's wise to never ever ever
allow cookies.  (Plus, a site I'm in the very very very very early stages
of designing will use cookies for the information transport between pages...
so cookies aren't as bad as I used to think.. heh)

>* many pages have a bunch of irrelevant links in the first lines. To 
>  go to the important links, one has to hit [Down] many times. I'd
>  like [Shift] [Down] to always jump to the first link of the next
>  line, or alternatively to skip two links.

Or even completely skip links that are to graphic images... (but show the
alt tag if it's there)..  Maybe this is already possible.. Is this the
sort of thing you're talking about?

>* When filling out a text input box, the [Left] key is dangerous: it
>  moves back over your entered text, but when you hit the beginning of
>  the text box, it jumps to the previous pages. This happens to me a
>  lot: I hold down the [Left] key, and all of a sudden I find myself
>  at some strange place. Don't know how to fix it though.

Good point.. I run into this all of the time too, it ticks me off.

Maybe make left-arrow NOT take you off of a text box.. (correct? isn't
what's happening is that the left arrow is taking you _off_ of the text
box, then the next left arrow is going back a page?   If not, then don't
accept commands at the beginning of a text box)