On Sunday 13 November 2005 05:42 pm, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
You don't see the problem.
All people who use a non-css user-agent (browser, screen-reader, text-to-speech processor, braille line, etc.) will have this problem. Should they all write a script before reading the book?
Perhaps you don't see the solution. _PG_ can apply such a script to an ebook before processing it through say, the plucker distiller. Should PG say "oh, we can't/shouldn't have to do this" or should
PG has always laid great stress on posting correct html. This html is plainly broken and should not have been posted.
The HTML is correct. W3 says so. Lynx's (or other user-agents) ability to render it is what is broken and/or insufficient. You see that as an indictment of the data, when the problem is the tool. I'm very surprised to see an *ix person of long-standing apparently unable to see that this is a case where the long-standing *ix tradition of filtering data before passing it along could be readily applied to satisfy all parties requirements.