[18803] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.20: htmlview
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Feb 21 08:36:26 2001
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:36:23 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>, <bugs@mit.edu>
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But is viewing a text file in HTML mode a problem? OK, OK, I'm just being
difficult. I realize it could very well be some more arcane file type, or
an octet-stream.
So which is better: a switch for htmlview to always force "HTML mode" for
those who want it, or to have htmlview make assumptions based on the
document suffix (i.e. if it's .htm or .html)? The latter is truly horrid,
but I also wonder if having a switch (which few people will know or
remember to use) is adequate ... if this is a severe problem.
See, I'm not clear on what Lynx tries to do to an HTML document when it
displays it and *isn't* in HTML mode. I only run Lynx occasionally, so
forgive me if I'm missing something obvious ....
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > I'm with Jacob on this one, I think, but give me a counterexample:
> > When would I NOT want 'htmlview' to force Lynx to run in HTML mode?
>
> When I'm viewing http://some.web.server/file.txt.
>
>
