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Re: lynx-dev anyone out there seen tidy?


From: Klaus Weide
Subject: Re: lynx-dev anyone out there seen tidy?
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 16:32:00 -0600 (CST)

On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Philip Webb wrote:

> 981212 Larry Virden wrote: 
> > HTML Tidy <URL: http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/>
> > This tool makes an attempt to modify an HTML page
> > to repair missing quote marks, tags, mention extraneous tags, etc.
> > It's C code that should run on most any system with a C compiler.
>  
> it looks good.
> how far does it simply do what  -tagsoup  already does?

It does about the opposite.

Tidy attempts to (get people to) create cleaner input for the next stage,
the consumer of HTML (e.g. a standards conforming browser).

The -tagsoup flag (normally) turns OFF code that attempts to create
cleaner input for the next stage, i.e. the code in SGML.c does less
work to create valid input for the code in HTML.c.

The reason things often seem to work better with -tagsoup is: the later
stage (code in HTML.c) has been heavily modified from the original (say,
Lynx 2.5) so it deals with invalid input and recovers from it.  Its
recovery often seems to give better results than the recovery attempted
in SGML.c when -tagsoup is not used.

(all this is simplified of course.)


> since it's freeware, it should be legal to incorporate some of it in Lynx,
> if Lynx doesn't already handle these things.

Quoting from <URL: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html>:
   Please don't use the term ``freeware'' as a synonym for ``free
   software.'' The term ``freeware'' was used often in the 1980s for
   programs released only as executables, with source code not available.
   Today it has no clear definition.


   Klaus

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