Re: [Lynx-dev] Accept types (www.facespan.com)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

> At 07:20p -0500 03/16/2004, Thomas Dickey didst inscribe upon an
> electronic papyrus:
>
> >On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> >
> >  > At 06:07a +0900 03/17/2004, Henry Nelson didst inscribe upon an
> >  > electronic papyrus:
> >  >
> >  > >On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:55:29AM -0800, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> >  > >  > "content-type viewing" thread; by setting the charset to
> >  > >  > "Transparent", I get the page (although entities are not decoded).
> >  > >  > Weird. (Weird from *my* perspective, because I expect pages to
> >  > >  > display without having to lose entity rendering.)
> >  > >
> >  > >I'm not sure of what is meant by "entity",
> >  >
> >  > © or & or ... -- you know, entities.
> >  >
> >  > I just don't see why I have to trade off decoding entities for
> >decoding gzip.
> >  > If Lynx can do both, and they are not mutually exclusive, then why?
> >
> >There's no runtime setting to control whether lynx tells the host it
> >can accept gzip'd pages.  (Not every feature in the code has a config
> >setting).
>
> What is the answer, then? What is necessary in order for me to view
> gzipped pages with rendering intact? Why does Lynx have a problem
> with this? Is it just that no one ever noticed?

No one noticed (not unusual since there are a lot of badly-written pages).
Try running the W3C validator on this one.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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