Re: lynx-dev VapourWare 0.01

[Philip Webb]

990521 Rob Partington wrote: 
> I've been going on about an object-tree based Lynx for -ages-.
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
i'ld guess most lynx-devers have little idea what this is all about,
but many (incl me) would be pleased to learn:
could you describe what it is/does/helps/etc ?

> It doesn't do much at the moment; you get blank output on the screen
> because I haven't written the renderer part yet.
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is the kind of debugging output you get:
                      ^^^^^^^^^
-- snip --  
> Attributes are also handled by a hash, not the A_HREF #defines.
  ^^^^^^^^^^                       ^^^^          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> In theory, handling tables is now just a question
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ like, real ***tables*** ??!!
> of getting a suitable renderer.  That's the bit I'm working on now.
> Comments and suggestions welcome.

much more likely when more people understand what you're upto.

> I'll put a page up in my section of l.b.o with my todo/suggestions list
> My work on integrating the GPL'd Ecma/Javascript interpreter 
> has been put on hold until I get the object tree working,
> since I'm of the opinion it'll be a lot simpler to work with.
 
don't forget to explain the relation between the E/J-i & the o-t ...

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