Re: [links] New user - bug report, feature requests

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:24:37PM -0600, Alfredo Fernández Díaz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just wanted to feel the joy of text browsing; after a brief and intense
> experience with Lynx I've found Links and I love it so much that I decided
> to look up the mailing list and... here I am.
> 
> I'm using links2.1pre14 on OS/2 (both in text and PM modes), and I'll
> probably use it on DOS/Win32 soon.
> 
> As a new user I don't know how active Links development is, etc. so please
> cope with me a little while. After some hours of use I've found some bugs
> I'd like to report. Oddly enough most of these are not present in Lynx but
> that is way too unusable for me so I thought I better try to get them fixed
> in links.
> 
> Severe bugs:
> -NLS characters are not displayed correctly when not in the HTML main flow
> (examples: alt or title attributes, names for submit buttons, etc).

What are NLS characters? Can you give some example to reproduce the problem?

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> -Javascript not fully working. My example is at
> http://www.netropolis-si.com/ebook/ (despite the initial page everything is
> in English) I know "InnerHTML" is not 100% DOM, and that CSSs are not
> suported (yet?) but the javascript parser blows on a pretty conventional
> statement so I felt it should be reported.
> 
> Less severe bugs:
> -Separate named rendering windows created through <a href="..."
> target="name"> links are not fully respected. I.e. you cannot update a
> secondary terminal window following links tailored for it; instead, a new
> window is created always. Despite usability related considerations I think
> there should be a full implementation or none at all.
> -The status line showing link targets et al should be wrapped if wider than
> terminal window (I like using a 30x40 terminal to emulate cell phone
> navigation etc.
> -Some unicode characters are not displayed correctly in graphics mode
> (something like a big asterisk is displayed). Example: in the very same url
> mentioned before, some Farsi script characters near the end. Those very same
> characters are rendered correctly in Mozilla, in the same machine, OS, etc.
> 
> Feature requests:
> -Status line should display title attributes (optionally at least) when
> present as well as link targets.
> -An option should be provided to allow to scroll rendered text through the
> terminal window, instead of splitting it in n pages and 'jump' between them.
> -DOS-like local URLs like D:\ should be automatically converted to
> file:///D:/ instead of rejected. Interestingly enough, file:///D:\ is
> accepted...
> -An updated 'how to' procedure to get text rendered with colors in text mode
> (the 0.82 manual is too outdated) .
> 
> So, if there are any developers out there, let me know what you think.
> 
> Regards,
> Alfredo.
> 
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