> On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, mikael wrote:
> > From: Joe Parker <jp@CLARK.NET>
> > Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 12:08:36 -0500
> > Also, the <title> didn't display right in Lynx. It got butted so far to
the
> > right the last word was cut off.
> >
> > Bzzzt. Hey, wait a minute. Did you say that <title> didn't DISPLAY
> > right? As far as I can see, <title> shouldn't display at all.
> >
>
> it's in the top of the terminal screen, followed by a (x of y) message,
> in the lynx echo bar. like this:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Lynx 2.4.2 Yahoo Search Results (1 of 9)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> the proper comment form for HTML is <!blah blah blah> and it does too
> work in lynx. if, however, some other symbol is used, the html tag will
> be shown as normal text.
>
> some of the more useless tags:
> <html></html> as far as i know, this serves no other purpose than to
> signify that this document is, in fact, an HTML document, and not a SGML one.
>
It's not that simple - once (through a typo) I wrote </html> instead of
</title>.... The result - all my friends who use Netscape reoprted seeing
only an empty page (no other browser did so).
> <head></head> the <title></title> tag pair governs this
>
> the only REAL use i see of these is to outline the page for idiots.
>
>
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