It seems that the problem is caused by the fact that Lynx isn't standards compliant anymore, and fails to interpret valid HTML5 structures correctly because they aren't valid under older standards.
What does that even mean? What standards it complies with? Is there a compliance test suite or report somewhere? Because there definitely are bunch of standards it does not comply with.
The definition of niche is literally "appeals to a small, specialized section of the population" so, er, yes.
Perhaps, but in this case Google would just have to comply with the standards, which are not niche at all.
The standards just describe what to do to make a standards compliant HTML page, what tags are allowed etc.
There are no standards that say that e.g. your page can't be all dependent on JS.
In other words, Google could be 100% standards compliant, and not work in Lynx.
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According to another comment thread, this isn't accurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21629207
It seems that the problem is caused by the fact that Lynx isn't standards compliant anymore, and fails to interpret valid HTML5 structures correctly because they aren't valid under older standards.
Lynx is the definition of niche...
According to some other comments, the problem might indeed be that it is not a browser compliant with the current HTML standard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21629207
> it’s a standards complaint browser.
What does that even mean? What standards it complies with? Is there a compliance test suite or report somewhere? Because there definitely are bunch of standards it does not comply with.