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On Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 1:59 pm, "Jonathan E. Magen"
<yonkeltron@gmail.com> wrote:
> what a good question!
>
> On 6/15/05, Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com> wrote:
> > What are folks favorite text-only web browsers and why?
> >
> > I need to do something better thank lynx for my text browsing.
>
> try links, link2 or elinks. i like them all.
Jeff, you're an emacsian. Why aren't you already using emacs-w3m? It's
an emacs wrapper around w3m, a graphical text-mode browser. Browse in an
xterm using w3m and it will render images on top of the xterm window (which
blew my mind back when I first saw it, until I figured out how they were
doing it). It's a good hack, but not my favorite text-mode browser.
(Anyway, wants to look at advertisements when using a text-mode browser?)
I usually use links2, which behaves adequately in most circumstances. It
ports over some of w3m's graphical features, and can theoretically be used
from a Linux framebuffer. I don't bother with this; if I want a graphical
environment I'll run firefox.
I think that ELinks forks the earlier (non-Links2) version of links. It does
a nice job of handling colors (if you think colors are a good idea in a
text-mode browser) and has tabbed browsing.
Lynx hasn't aged that well, but is tolerably functional. Links, ELinks and
w3m often get carried away rendering multi-column layouts, and lynx's single-
column engine will occasionally achieve better results.
Cheers,
Paul
w3m (for terminal use)
http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
emacs-w3m (emacs wrapper for w3m)
http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/
ELinks (Fork of Links)
http://elinks.or.cz/
Links2 (Improved Links)
Links (original)
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/%7Emikulas/links/
Lynx
http://lynx.browser.org/
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