latest lynx ANN: lynx2.9.0dev.3

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Since some here feel  lynx is somehow an old browser...html5 anyone?
Here is information on today's update.



On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> The current version of lynx is 2.8.9
>
> It's available at
> 	https://lynx.invisible-island.net/
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/
> 2.9.0 Development & patches:
> 	https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/index.html
>
> Files:
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/patches/lynx2.9.0dev.3.patch.gz
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/patches/lynx2.9.0dev.3.patch.gz.asc
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0dev.3.tar.bz2
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0dev.3.tar.bz2.asc
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0dev.3.tar.gz
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0dev.3.tar.gz.asc
> 	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.0dev.3.zip
>
> 2019-08-25 (2.9.0dev.3)
> * modify gophermap menu-parsing to handle "h" HTML selectors similarly to the
>  command-line parsing, which avoids hex-encoding the parameter delimiters
>  "?", "=", ";" as well as "#" (report by Tobias Girstmair) -TD
> * make redirection-limit configurable, defaulting to 10 -TD
> * remove alert when relative base href is seen, since HTML5 allows for this
>  (report by Sylvain Bertrand) -TD
> * modify lynx.iss to use statically-linked bzip2 and gzip programs, and to
>  eliminate a spurious warning when attempting to remove an optional DLL -TD
> * fix a few coverity warnings -TD
> * revise HTSimplify to eliminate a redundant "." segment at the beginning of a
>  path, referring to RFC 3986 5.2.4 (report by Alejandro Lieber) -TD
>
> -- 
> Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
> https://invisible-island.net
> ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
>