Converting HTML to ASCII

[Thomas Dickey]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> First, make it work.  Then make it work right.  Then worry
> about how fast it is.  

> "Premature optimization..."

That could be - but then again, most of the comments I've seen for that
particular issue are for rather old releases.

>> It seems to use a quadratic algorithm for remembering where
>> the links point, or something.  I wrote a very crude but very
>> fast renderer in C that I can post if someone wants it, which
>> is what I use for this purpose.

> If lynx really is too slow, try w3m or links.  Both do a better
> job of rendering anyway.

They lay out tables more/less as expected (though navigation in tables
for links seems to be an afterthought).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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