lynx future, was: Re: LYNX-DEV warning: applets flying

[Uwe Koch]

On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Michael Ritzert wrote:

> I suggest that we should stop discussing the active X non-security stuff any
> further in this group since it is off topic.  If someone likes to discuss
> with me or any other of the contributors to this thread he/she should feel
> free to use personal email.

agreed.

> 
> To get on-topic again: i am fairly new to this group, running lynx 2.7 and
> like  to know what is in the works for the new future.
> 
> Important for me are the following issues: 
> 
> 1. internalisation of menu/response messages (i'll probably
> be able to contribute here because we plan to use a lynx with a german ui
> in our institution)

No big deal. They are all just in one file. Exactly for that purpose.
It's calles LYMessages_en.h . Just translate it and use the new file.
If you want to, we can work on that together.

> 2. some kind of java (kaffe?) support, maybe javascript too.
Sorry for the sarcasm: but how do you want to emulate a mouse which is
often necessay for java-applets on a dec-text-terminal???? And what about
the bitmap-graphics?
 
> 3. some kind of table rendering, like in emacs w3.
Ageed, table rendering is less than optimal but very readable, in contrast
to Mosaic...

> 4. https support (i'd like to access https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/ with lynx)
That wourld be a great plus, but unfortunately as far as I know only
US citicens work at this problem and they can't export that code to us.
Even when the code is developped outside the US, it can't be reexported.

> 5. faster toggling between rendered html and source display --- why does
>    \ start a full reload and not a reload from lynx' local cache which should
>    be fully sufficient?
There is no such thing as a local cache in lynx - use your proxy. 
For more information look at the lynx-dev archive.

-uwe

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