Summary of changes in Lynx v2.8

• Ports to Win32 (95/NT) and DOS (DJGPP)
• Auto-configure script for Unix platforms simplifies building with curses, ncurses or slang libraries.
• Better support for color, including experimental color-style code.
• Implementation of popup windows for the 'o'ptions menu.
• Many changes to better deal with what currently passes for HTML on the web. Most of these changes deal with invalidly nested tags, to achieve better recovery and, in some cases, prevent crashes. With particular attention to forms and form field elements. (This differs from 2.7.2; however we plan to reexamine the error handling in 2.7.2 versus the 2.8 version in our subsequent development for 2.9).
• Enhanced support for non-English text. This includes support for many more display character sets, recognition of UTF-8 encoding and charset parameters, recognition of Unicode character references and proposed HTML 4.0 entities.
• Features to ease navigation in long documents and documents with forms:
  • Enhanced navigation commands: type 12g to "go to" (but not follow) the 12th link, 24p for page (screen) number 24.
  • Form fields can be numbered.
  • New key (by default Ctrl-V) to "escape" from text input fields.
• Support for cookies according to the revised IETF drafts through November 1997. (Cookies are still not persistent across sessions.)
• HTTP proxy authentication, NNTP authentication.
• Changes to address security concerns, including those in two CERT advisories.
• Numerous bug fixes.
• Updates to keep track with evolving protocol specifications (HTTP 1.1, URI, ...)