Re: [Lynx-dev] Website shows blank page in Lynx browser

[David Woolley]

On 12/04/18 02:27, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> What would be really neat if it happened is if Tim Burnersley went and 
> did a class action suit on all javascript using websites requiring 
> specific performance where those sites had to remove permanently all 
> html since they had made his html inaccessible by using their

Unfortunately The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content 
Accessibility Group, now considers reliance on ECMAScript as acceptable, 
and has done so, for probably half a decade.  In my view that is because 
it is made up of accessibility consultants and graphical browser developers.

Also note that HTML5 is the product of a coup, by an industry consortium 
and is not controlled by W3C.  W3C wanted a semantically strong 
language, document mark-up language.  WHATWG wanted a language for 
running graphical applications on browsers, that was defined in such a 
way that even garbage produced consistent graphical results across browsers.

I don't think that Lynx is anywhere close to HTML5 compliance, because 
it doesn't parse it in a way that would allow it to use the mandated 
error recovery.