On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:53:42AM EDT, Jonas Fonseca wrote: > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Sat, May 13, 2006: > > Here are a couple of things that I noticed: > > > > 1. Text background colors are often truncated to the length of the > > text rather than continuing to the end of the line. An example would > > be the gentoo.org web site where the different items on the home > > page are separated by a plum-colored line. When viewed with elinks > > these lines are terminated immediately after the last character in > > the heading. > > > > 2. Many sites have a horizontal line of buttons somewhere near the top > > with links to the main areas of the site. On the same www.gentoo.org > > home page this is rendered correctly (About | Projects | Docs .. etc.) > > > > On the contrary at www.debian.org the links do not appear lined > > horizontally but rather as a vertical list to the left of the > > display: > > > > * About Debian > > * News > > * Getting Debian > > * Support > > * .. > > > > Worse, some sites - can't find one right now - have such a long list > > of links in that horizontal "site bar" that when displayed > > vertically you end up having to page down to actually see the > > beginning of the page. > > > > I was wondering if everyone sees the same thing and if not if there is > > anything I should change in my terminal/elinks configuration that might > > help correct these issues? > > The problem is that ELinks' renderer does not support the CSS box model > and thus falls short on pages that make heavy use of it. No > configuration option can fix this. The renderer has to be rewritten to > be based on DOM. Some work has been done but there is a very very long > way to go. > Pity.. But thanks for the explanation. I'm sure this will do lots of other useful things I have no idea of but just this enhancement makes it well worth waiting for these changes.
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