- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:50:26 -0500
- To: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@netcom.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 03:31 PM 10/27/99 -0700, Scott Luebking wrote: >Hi, Charles > >How does a user tell lynx to display it? It's there by default at the head of the page. You can return to it at any time with '#'. see Lynx and HTML Banners <http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/release2-8-2/lynx2-8-2 /lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html#Banners> Al > >Scott > >> Scott, this sounds like precisely the kind of function that led the authors >> of HTML to include provision for something like >> >> <LINK rel="Help" href="aboutEverything" hreflang="en"> >> >> This works very well on such hi-tech browsers as Lynx, and does not require >> any magic popups. It is documented in the HTML 4.0 spcification fairly >> clearly. If this had been implemented by the people who agreed that it should >> be part of a recommendation, or asked for before people went off into >> proprietary solutions, we would have a very simple method of getting help >> about pages. >> >> (It is still in the spec...) >> >> Charles McCN >
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