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lynx bullshit

sorry about the nothingburger post but i really wanna rant about lynx because what the fuck is this

lynx doesnt render tables properly, compared to links

so much pain and anguish trying to fix this just to find out that its a problem with lynx itself

Leif Halvard Silli says: March 17, 2014 at 5:41 pm Even HTML tables does not work properly in Lynx unless the table is very simple. There are other text browserss – in particular Elinks, Links, W3m, where HTML tables work decently. So, first, I think it is wrong to look squarely at Lynx – one should broaden the view to “(decent) text browsers”. Second, when it comes to text browsers as A11Y tools, it is IMO, important to be clear on what they are useful for: They can help in making sure you develope the site in a robust way. And then I don’t think so much about whether they support all (new) elements as I think about the way text browser works. A text browsers has little or no support for CSS. So you must lay out the page in a way that looks good and works well when CSS is off. And things like that. A tool like wave.webaim.org also works well, but may be it tests the site from another angle than a text browser does.

my main point with this being (if lynx is still being maintained that is), if you have contact with the devs, could you let them know about this? lynx is a really cool browser aside from this and it sucks that it doesn't work properly

also check out sera's revamped page it's pretty cool methinks