Notes from LWN [LWN.net]

There is a relatively small amount of news to report this week. The individual subscriber count stands almost unchanged from last week - which is not entirely a bad thing, since a number of accounts have expired in that time. We will have to figure out a way to bring in the next round of subscribers, however.

We think we have worked out the problem that made it difficult for lynx users to log into the site. Please let us know if it still fails to work for you. (The longer-term task of making the site more lynx-friendly in general remains on the "to do" list).

Next week is the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. We'll be publishing a (perhaps a little smaller than usual) Weekly Edition one day early - on November 27 - because we'll all have eaten too much food to reach the keyboard thereafter. We'll return to our regular schedule for the following week (but there will be no Weekly Edition the week of December 25).

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Notes from LWN

Posted Nov 21, 2002 1:54 UTC (Thu) by lwn415 (guest, #6428) [Link]

You might have fixed the problem for lynx users, however my mozilla 1.2 build 2002091016 has stopped working with the login system. The link to the login page times out with "lwn.net could not be found". Thankfully, I have choices, and galeon 1.2.6 still works.

Mike

Notes from LWN

Posted Nov 21, 2002 2:43 UTC (Thu) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link]

update your mozilla; newer builds work fine.

Notes from LWN

Posted Nov 21, 2002 4:42 UTC (Thu) by Mithrandir (subscriber, #3031) [Link]

I suggest that lynx users might want to try "links" or "elinks". This handles tables better (where lynx doesn't at all) and I suspect that lwn would therefore look muuuuch better in it.

OT: links vs lynx

Posted Nov 21, 2002 18:41 UTC (Thu) by mp (subscriber, #5615) [Link]

"At all" is too strong a statement, though the support is rather limited.
Anyway, even on a 146x64 terminal I'm usually glad that lynx doesn't
waste screen space by rendering tables containing various menus and sidebars.

And lynx-friendliness of LWN is generally very acceptable now.

Notes from LWN

Posted Nov 29, 2002 15:42 UTC (Fri) by and (subscriber, #2883) [Link]

w3m is even better. it also supports colors (*wow*) and
images (limted to simple gifs), has mouse support and
a very acurate table rending for a textmode browser.

Notes from LWN

Posted Nov 21, 2002 6:55 UTC (Thu) by del (subscriber, #380) [Link]

My old laptop which has lynx 2.8.3 rel 1 always logged in successfully, but my desktop with the newer version 2.8.4 rel 1 could not log on until now.
Thanks for fixing the problem and double thanks for helping a small user base keep using their browser of choice.

Notes from LWN -- regarding Lynx

Posted Nov 22, 2002 9:25 UTC (Fri) by eh (guest, #266) [Link]

My thanks too to the LWN folks. I'm logged in and editing this from
Lynx 2.8.4rel.1. This is yet another of the many reasons that LWN is
worth subscribing to.

Jumping directly to comments

Posted Nov 22, 2002 6:27 UTC (Fri) by JLCdjinn (guest, #1905) [Link]

I just have a brief enhancement request, while we're on the topic of LWN internal business. Could the link from an article to the article with comments expanded (the "Comments" link) target an anchor at the beginning of the comments section? I just think it would be a nice touch to be taken directly to the comments. Note that this should not be done when expanding to a full article, only when going from the full article to the "commented" article.

Thanks for considering the idea, regardless! Keep up the stellar work!

· John