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Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx Win32 2.7.1ac-0.97 Hyperlink Bug (fwd)


From: Philip Webb
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx Win32 2.7.1ac-0.97 Hyperlink Bug (fwd)
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 03:30:31 -0500 (EST)

971221 Kai Engert wrote to me:
> At 02:43 21.12.97 -0500, you wrote:
> >yup, fancy that ... it's a bug in your HTML, not in Lynx!!
> >why on earth would you want to put  <LI> ... </LI>  in there anyway?
> >go read up the rules for HTML: they're available by entering  h .
> 
> Well, sorry... Didn't know that, just assumed the code is correct. I will
> forward this to the author of the page, Rogue Wave Software!
> 
> >
> >> When using Netscape, all the links are clickable.
> >
> >Notstraight does all sorts of bad things.
> >the point is that if everyone writes HTML his own eccentric way,
> >no-one is going to be able to understand it
> >& the whole idea of the Internet as a universal medium collapses.
> 
> Yes, you're right. Actually I'm an programmer, too, and actually, I've
> written a small HTML parser two years ago, too (shame on me for not noing
> the not allowed code :-))
> 
> It's always the best to follow exactly the documentation.
> 
> However, our experience has shown that there are really a lot of things
> going wrong. We programmed a proxy, and lot's of WebServers aren't
> implementing the HTTP protocol and it's headers correctly...
> But one has to find a solution to make the best out of it,
> and in most times there is a workaround.
> 
> But I really understand if you don't want to handle wrong code.
> Cheers, and thanks for your answer, Kai

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