Problem with Lynx

[Leslie K Alter]

Hi,

I've had this problem also. It turned out that I had forgotten to put a 
closing quote on when doing a link tag.

For example instead of typing 
   <A HREF="http://timon.sir.arizona.edu/syllabus/f95_606.html">606</A>

I would type:

   <A HREF="http://timon.sir.arizona.edu/syllabus/f95_606.html>606</A>

The difference is very subtle and it took another set of eyes looking at
my markup to see what was wrong. 

It was especially frustrating because Netscape was so forgiving and 
wouldn't eat my text whereas Lynx was not and whole chunks of text would 
literally drop out.

I hope this will help you solve your problem and end the retyping of your 
text.

Leslie Alter
Graduate Student
University of Arizona
School of Library Science

On Thu, 5 Oct 1995, Erwin Wodarczak wrote:

> I'm dropping out of "lurk mode" to see if anybody can help me figure out 
> what seems to be a problem with Lynx.
> 
> 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.
> 
> This has happened with newly-mounted Web documents, and newly-revised 
> documents.  The only solution that I've found is to re-type the entire 
> missing section - which is, of course, a royal pain.
> 
> Has anybody else run across this problem?  Could there be "hidden" code 
> breaks that Lynx is for some reason especially sensitive to?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Erwin Wodarczak
> Records Analyst / Archivist
> UBC Library - Special Collections and University Archives
> http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/0/providers/spcoll/welcome.html
> Tel: (604) 822-5877
> Fax: (604) 822-9587
> E-mail: ewodar at unixg.ubc.ca
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