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2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup (Linux Journal)
Linux Journal takes a
look at text mode browsers. "Considering the speed and
convenience text mode browsers offer, even over SSH connection from half a
continent away, text mode browsing is supremely useful. So let's take a
look at the current state of text mode browsers."
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2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup (Linux Journal) Posted Mar 8, 2005 17:15 UTC (Tue) by alspnost (subscriber, #2763) [Link] Text-mode browsers should never be underestimated! I love Elinks, and I use it for my daily "information slurping" sessions, ie quickly checking my absolute most-frequent daily news sites. Nothing, as in nothing, is quicker.
For general browsing I use Firefox of course, but for your 'list of regulars', text-mode is wonderfully efficient. I also find it amusing that many of these text browsers have tabbed support: and *still* IE can't manage it!
2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup (Linux Journal) Posted Mar 8, 2005 18:58 UTC (Tue) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] lynx, unlike links and w3m, tends to render the text of page well and to display its logical structure.
e.g: on LWN it will not try to display the separate columns side-by-side as it is senseless and only gets in your way when you try to read the main column.
2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup (Linux Journal) Posted Mar 8, 2005 21:47 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] I'm weeping. You dare to say that main problem of lynx is its strength ? Gosh. Opera has something like this. Optional of course! Of course you can turn it of if you really want to see what web-designer envisioned and not what total lack of HTML 4.x support generates you can switch it off. Sorry, but modern browser must know what <table> tag does. Even text one. Javascript support is good as well (only links supports javascrips to some degree). If you want "internal structure" - just press "\" in links and be done with it...
2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup (Linux Journal) Posted Mar 8, 2005 19:29 UTC (Tue) by sanjoy (subscriber, #5026) [Link] I use lynx for my main browsing. When a page really needs a graphical browser, e.g. for images or (cursed) Javascript or for tables (which lynx does not handle well), I have set the '.' (full stop/period) key to fire up galeon on that link. Here is the magic for the .lynxrc config file: EXTERNAL:http:galeon -w %s > /dev/null 2>&1 &:TRUEI have similar entries for 'ftp' and 'https' protocols. If you have an aggressive web cache (like wwwoffle) as your proxy, then another lynx option is also useful: EXTERNAL:http:wget -q %s -O /dev/null &:TRUE Now if you type '.' you get a choice of whether to fire up galeon or to run wget on the link. The wget will send the result to /dev/null, but it'll be in the wwwoffle cache so when you revisit it (e.g. offline), it'll come up. I use this feature say for an online news site: go to the page of articles, run wget on the interesting article titles, go read another one while the wgets finish. lynx will offer you the choice of what to do (wget or galeon) in the order you put the options in your file. I use wget much more than galeon, so I put that first and can then type '.' to pull up the choice and RETURN to choose wget. By an aggressive web cache, I mean one that will cache pages that would expire. Squid is not aggressive enough, but wwwoffle is by default (and can be made more so).
2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup (Linux Journal) Posted Mar 8, 2005 21:51 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Lynx does not know about tables at all. Links supports tables, frames and javascript - I use it quite ofter when I'm on slow connection. Javascript support is not very good but for a lot of sites with "minimal javascript" (like www.fanfiction.net) it works just fine. No need for galeon or firefox...
Text browsers are dangerous! Posted Mar 8, 2005 20:33 UTC (Tue) by chel (guest, #11544) [Link] A REPORT on the BBC wire claimed a Londoner faced a mass attack by armed police for using Lynx on Solaris.
Text browsers are dangerous! Posted Mar 8, 2005 21:31 UTC (Tue) by daney (subscriber, #24551) [Link] I guess it is true, sometimes fact is scarier than fiction.
2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup (Linux Journal) Posted Mar 8, 2005 21:53 UTC (Tue) by gvegidy (subscriber, #5063) [Link] Is it just me or is anybody else getting an "access denied" too?
2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup (Linux Journal) Posted Mar 8, 2005 22:53 UTC (Tue) by leandro (subscriber, #1460) [Link] > anybody else getting an "access denied" Subscriber-only...
Access denied Posted Mar 8, 2005 23:00 UTC (Tue) by jmayer (subscriber, #595) [Link] It would be nice if "subscriber only" links would get marked as such inthe text.
Access denied Posted Mar 8, 2005 23:39 UTC (Tue) by phip (subscriber, #1715) [Link] I was able to read the article earlier, but now I'm getting "Access Denied".
Cheers,
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