Re: [Lynx-dev] bug - tabbing through links causes repetition of link text

[Mark Skilbeck]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:41:49AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 03:20:51PM +0000, Mark Skilbeck wrote:
> > Hi, all
> > 
> > I noticed this behaviour when visiting google.com (bad, yes I know!): when
> > tabbing through the links after the first line of text, the text for the 
> > links
> > would change to include to first letter of the link-text. For example, if 
> > the 
> > link text was "iGoogle", upon tabbing to this link it would become 
> > "iiGoogle",
> > and so on the for the rest. AFAIK, this only affects google stuff.
> > 
> > Does anybody else see this?
> 
> not offhand, but you might be seeing a different page, or your settings
> might differ (e.g., using numbered links).
> 
> Lynx draws highlighting on the links after drawing the page.
> If it gets confused about where the links are, it can do that.
>  
> > My --version:
> > Lynx Version 2.8.8dev.12 (22 Feb 2012)
> > libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 1.0.0e, ncurses 5.9.20110404
> > Built on linux-gnu Feb 26 2012 12:14:33
> 
> -- 
> Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
> http://invisible-island.net
> ftp://invisible-island.net

I am using numbered links, yes (how could you live without them? ;))

- mark.