Re: problems using google

Another option is to use the -useragent command line switch.  This brings 
back the links as well as many other things.  The line I use is:

lynx -useragent="mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS x 10_8_0) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.79 Safari/527.1

Tom
On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Ian Collier wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 08:21:23AM +0100, Dick Sterkenburg wrote:
>> what is the meanig of the ctrl-v option, why does it bring the links back?
>
> I do not know the full details about what this does, but the help in
> lynx.cfg for this option states:
>
> If TAGSOUP is set, Lynx uses the "Tag Soup DTD" rather than "SortaSGML".
> The two approaches differ by the style of error detection and recovery.
> Tag Soup DTD allows for improperly nested tags; SortaSGML is stricter.
>
> The issue is that Lynx thinks the tags in Google search results are
> improperly nested, and therefore from the above description "Tag Soup"
> is going to display them better than the strict mode.
>
> In fact, they are not improperly nested according to current standards.
> The issue is that the <A> tag which links the results contains two <DIV>
> tags containing, respectively, the title of the link and its URL.
>
> In HTML prior to 5, <A> elements were not allowed to contain block
> elements such as <DIV>, and Lynx was written to this standard.
> However, in HTML 5, the content model of the <A> tag is "transparent"
> which means it is allowed to contain whatever the parent element may
> contain.  In most cases, this means that <A> tags are now allowed
> to contain <DIV> tags.
>
> So this is something that the Lynx developer could consider fixing,
> though I'm not sure how involved that would be.
>
> imc
>
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