Re: lynx-dev color

[Rob Partington]

> > > (slang doesn't support enough of the curses interface to simply slide 
> > > it into place, and no one seems to have time/inclination to hack up 
> > > lynx to make slang do that). 

As far as I remember, I got colour styles working fine with slang.
*shrug*  Perhaps that was code that never got entered into the mainstream
Lynx.

> > Where is the dependency on the parser? 
> the dependency is spread around - relies on side-effects.  I disentangled
> some stuff, but it's relying on the differences in the two parsers between
> SGML_EMPTY and SGML_MIXED (that's from my notes - it's been two months
> so I don't remember all of the details).

Because things like <li> and <p> were marked as SGML_EMPTY, so setting
a style for those had the style turned off straight away, rendering it
useless.  *shrugx2*  

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