Re: lynx-dev <h2> in <pre> behaviour (was: strange <pre> behaviour)

[Klaus Weide]

On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Pak-San Man wrote:

> Sorry it's me again.  I've upgraded my browser to the latest release
>  Lynx 2.8.1rel.2 (1998) [which I downloaded off the official site pointed
> to by lynx.browser.org], and viewed the page on the gloomy weather of East
> Anglia again.
> 
> But the <pre> text still doesn't come out as <pre>.
> 
>   URL: http://www.meto.gov.uk/datafiles/RNPMS.html

You seem to have missed other responses - look at the list archives.

   http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/

To summarize,

 - it's invalid HTML (and you can't expect a browser to deal with
   invalid HTML the same way from one version to the next),
 - try ^V for the other parsing mode.  Some recently added text
   regarding this is in <URL: http://sol.slcc.edu/lynx/current/
   lynx2-8-2/lynx_help/keystrokes/option_help.html#tagsoup>.

    Klaus