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Re: LYNX-DEV Partial Display
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Wayne Buttles |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Partial Display |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 11:14:20 -0500 (EST) |
On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Sinan Kaan Yerli wrote:
> >For some reason, the following page screws up lynx with
> >your patch (yes, BAD HTML ;-). http://www.fdisk.com/search/
> I think what is happening here is that when the first chunk is loaded the
> buffer is rendered but somehow <form ...> is cut at the middle and lynx
> can not recover until it receives </form>. There is no easy way of
> recovering this on the fly, though (which is done when the reader returns
> HT_LOADED true, I guess)
Did you see the same bug I did? Lynx gets stuck either following the
stream all the way down the page, or partial display breaks and doesn't
work any more. I was just making sure because I tried it a second time
and it didn't do it right off.
> >I'm not sure I like the incremental view, but it could be because I am not
> >used to it. It definately looks costly for slow telnet links though.
>
> For me I don't feel the telnet speed.
I don't normally either, but I just played with using a Windows CE palmtop
telnetted into a linux box and it really drove home the speed issue ;-)
> Still I could not figure out file:// read.
file:// works, doesn't it?