Posted by robert maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t on 02/17/07 18:09

> From: I V <wrong...@gmail.com>
> ... coding for Lynx only is not the worst thing you could do;
> after all, it involves just writing good semantic HTML,

Yes, thank you for understanding what I'm trying to do.

> which there's plenty of technical support for right in this
> newsgroup.

Well, mixed in with lots of derogatory remarks which distract from
the technical support.

> The OP's problem seems to be that he wants to write for Lynx
> _and_ control the formatting of his pages. Unlike writing pages
> for IE6 only, that's not really harmful, it's just impossible.

If it's impossible, should I continue to ask questions whether
specific things are possible or not, or just assume
*everything*whatsoever* is impossible and give up totally?

I thought that really simple things like choosing where there will
be blank lines between sections of text and where there will be
forced line breaks without any blank line would be covered by the
basic HTML markup language, but I guess not, sigh.

By the way, somebody in this thread suggested the CODE element as
an alternative to the PRE element. I tried it just now: It doesn't
do any line break at all, just runs all the code inline with the
paragraph, so that's definitely not the effect I want, not even
close. I think whoever suggested I use a CODE element was just
trying to disrupt everything. I think the Sci-Fi term is "berserker".

[Back to original message]