Re: lynx-dev [2.8.1dev21] patch: Cosmetic changes to internal pages

[Al Gilman]

to follow up on what David Woolley said:

> >     <h1>You have reached...page<br>(Lynx Version ...)</h1>.
> 
> Although not actually illegal, I think this sets a bad precedent of
> trying to force physical layout (even though one knows the target browser,
> although not the screen width).  It is doing this with GUIs as targets that
> is making pages more and more unreadable under Lynx.
> > 
> >   The reason for this was to gain a line which was taken when <h2> is
> >   used.
> 
> H2 is probably wrong as well; what's really wanted is an H1A, but there is
> nothing comparable in HTML.

What one wants is the capability for a user-defined structure type
for page header blocks.

You can emulate an XML solution in HTML with a <DIV CLASS=H1> but
there is no way _yet_ to communicate to "the auto-extractor for
structure" that the "brief title" component of this title block
structure serves as a synonym of the HTML H1 for ToC
etc. purposes.  That capability is lagging, and is what RDF is
supposed to supply.

On a practical level, trying to get people not to use <BR> in
<Hn> is like arguing that they should use <EM> in lieu of <i>.
It wastes ammunition on battles that are better left un-fought.

Al