Jonas Fonseca wrote:
I don't understand the rest and how can you know that there is not
something meaningful in the <noscript>-tag or in <img alt="text" />?
Sure. In the primary role of a viewing-browser that is fair comment. But
it is also a program that understands both html and text and how to
translate between them. In the dump-mode usage in particular then, it
might want to "shine" in that role (as an obvious option), and just
because IT CAN without too much extra hassle .. (infrastructure intact)!
I would regret if the suggested cleanup was not recognised as a
potential feather in the Elinks cap waiting to 'be seen' -- a missed
opportunity at little cost. But actually suppressing the tags as they
appear in the header-lines of dumped-text/html is not so much the issue.
They at least can be relatively easily trimmed/parsed out with some
other (superfluous?) tool. [Lynx is better here already!].
What is more damaging is a (perhaps slightly inadvertant) decision to
allow the dumped-content of some frames to overlap (wrap into) the data
dumped from html-tables. It may have been considered an 'enhanced'
compaction feature? But any capturing table-data in this way probably
wants it clean as a whistle -- i.e completely independent of stuff in
other frames. Trying to identify some arbitrary data wrapped into
table-lines output so that the contamination can be cut away BEFORE THE
TABLE-DATA IS EVEN USABLE, is a nightmare! [w3m seems marginally better
here already!]
.
So, imho Elinks fails to be the sophisticated tool it could be on two
dumping counts:
1. Table-data should always be dumped independent of the content in
other frames/tables.
(frame-overlapping could grab completely new text-lines for itself,
above and separate from any table-output to follow, less prettily
perhaps, but we are dumping not viewing?).
2. A dump-clean option to retain ONLY DATA CONTENT.
Well, dont ask, dont know.
cheers
Sean
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