On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Note that that's the fault of using an old unmaintained browser: other text browsers like elinks understand at least some CSS (though none of lynx, elinks, nor w3m understood vertical-align: top on a table cell in a quick local test).
Simple fact is nobody seems to care about text-mode browsers enough to make one that actually works with the modern web (which is a very CSS & JS-heavy world if you go anywhere beyond just reading text); they're just old leftovers that a few geeks occasionally whip out for fun.
We should probably get around to writing proper browser compatibility guidelines for text browsers other than basically "it should still look some what sane, but may have some function" which iirc is what our current comp. guidelines say, and clearly spell out what functionality we can lose and/or degrade, how it has to layout etc.