Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.3dev.4: "stubbing off hotlinks"???

[David Combs]

On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 11:55:17AM -0700, Heather Stern wrote:
> T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > 1999-07-14 (2.8.3dev.4)
>   [most of changelog snipped]
> > * added support for forcing-empty-HREFless-As - ie A element that doesn't
> >   contain HREF will be closed after it was seen (without waiting for </a>) -
> >   this fixes rendering of documentation, produced by broken translators that
> >   don't emit balanced 'A's (eg RedHat docs produced by 'dlh', Sybase docs) -
> >   commandline option is --force-empty-hrefless-a, and 
> > force_empty_hrefless_a 
> >   in lynx.cfg, ifdef'd with NO_EMPTY_HREFLESS_A -VH
> 
> Will this still correctly handle my favorite way of stubbing off hotlinks
> which have been brought to question:
>       <A HREF="http://www.example.com/";>Example Widget Supply House</a>
> becomes
>       <A stub="http://www.example.com/";>Example Widget Supply House</a>
> 
> ...making it easy for me to reinstate the hotlink quickly when the issue
> is resolved.
> 
> * Heather 

Heather, could you please explain, tutorially, what you are
talking about above.  What does it mean to "stub off hotlinks"?
And why would one want to do it?  etc.

Thanks!

David