LYNX-DEV Re: Table support in lynx

[Larry W. Virden, x2487]

> The only thing which really bugs me about it is lack of table support.

Lynx 2.4.2 and beyond have table support.

Perhaps what you mean is "lack of table support to the degree I want"?

> I also noticed a suggestion to support the applet tag, is this in
> the pipeline?

It's doubtful much will be done with this.  One developer is working on
a small subset of javascript for a personalized version of lynx.  It's
unlikely anyone will have the time and resources necessary to add support
like this to lynx, but there's always hope.

> I also posted a suggestion (to the suggestions list) for a 'forward'
> operator

I've occasionally wanted this one myself.  But never badly enough to 
start hacking on the source code to get it.

>Another thought, anyone looked into adding a tcl/tk interpreter as
>a compile time option?

I assume what you mean here is 'has anyone thought of enhancing lynx
to support client side scripting in Tcl.

Unfortunately, it would be a novelty at this time since there is so little
code out there in Tcl to use.  My desire would be to see some kind of
language independant functionality added to HTML so that a user writing
an HTML page could say:

"Here comes some
[Perl|Tcl|Scheme|Guile|LISP|JavaScript|AppleScript|VisualBasic|whatever]
code that needs to execute in a safe environment."

_That_ would be nifty.
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