[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#847967: Bug#847967: lynx: Fix links containing divs

Fri Feb 3 02:01:38 UTC 2017

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 06:15:39PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Control: forwarded -1 https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2016-05/msg00006.html
> Control: tag -1 + confirmed
> 
> Hi Samuel,
> 
> thanks for the bug report. This seems to be a known issue upstream...
> 
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > More and more websites use nice-looking links thanks to css, using code
> > like this:
> > 
> > <html>
> > <a href="http://www.debian.org/"><div class="foo">Debian</div></a>
> > </html>
> 
> It seems as if that was invalid HTML for a long time and is valid
> under HTML5 or so.
> 
> > In lynx 2.8.9dev11, the Debian word does not appear as a link at
> > all, actually the link is not reachable at all! This is really
> > not usable at all, see for instance http://rue89bordeaux.com/ or

lynx shows 50 links (plus 160 links).  Use 'L' to see the available links.

> > https://2017.rmll.info/ which do not contain any link...

only 28 links here.

> Both URLs do contain some links for me. Anyways, there seem to be less
> links than expected. But at least pressing Ctrl-V as suggested on
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2016-05/msg00006.html
> seems to unhide the remaining ones.

Going back to the original report,

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Frue89bordeaux.com%2F

shows a few problems.  I'd rather spend time fixing problems where
the w3 validator says the page is correct, while lynx doesn't render
it in an accessible manner.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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