Edbrowse was: debugging an html document is now fun

[Steve Holmes]

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How does Edbrowse do Javascript and the like? How would it compare to
browsers like Links (the chain) or Elinks?

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 06:42:10AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> Karl,
> 
> Larry called my attention a while ago to the fact that edbrowse does not 
> render my download web site correctly, as does lynx and perhaps other 
> browsers. I decided to try to narrow down the problem a bit before 
> asking for help with it, and what I discovered is that my index.html 
> file was full of various stupidities that have crept in over recent 
> months and years. 
> 
> Edbrowse would not tolerate those stupidities, although other browsers 
> evidently accommodated to them in one fashion or another. I used 
> edbrowse to correct my errors, thanks to the helpful diagnostic error 
> messages it reports. Switching back and forth between browse mode and 
> raw mode was an enormous convenience, which I had not appreciated 
> before. 
> 
> I think it is a good idea that edbrowse is strict about html code, 
> although I expect there are a lot of buggy sources to cope with out 
> there. 
> 
> Thanks again for a great tool.
> 
> Chuck
> 
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