Problem with Lynx

Elisabeth Roche ace at Opus1.COM
Thu Oct 5 22:55:04 EDT 1995


Are you including all your  alt tags for HTML coding for text browsers? 

Elisabeth Roche ace at opus1.com

who concurs with the response from Margaret, but thought I'd add this
question to the pot.:--)))


At 06:16 PM 10/5/95 -0700, web4lib at library.berkeley.edu wrote:
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>On Thu, 5 Oct 1995, Erwin Wodarczak wrote:
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>> Occasionally, when I view one of my own documents in Lynx, whole sections of 
>> text are missing.  When I view it in the text editor, however, everything 
>> is there.  I am also unable to find any HTML coding errors.  No 
>> "Netscape-isms" are involved, either.  Finally, when I look at the same 
>> document using Netscape, all the text that was missing in Lynx is there, 
>> and looks fine.
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>It would probably be good if you had a "test" document some of us could
>look at, but I have found that Lynx is absolutely unforgiving in HTML
>errors, no matter how small.  Netscape is particularly forgiving.
>
>Check with another browser like Mosaic or even Cello and see how the
>pages look.  
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