Quoth Nick on Sun, Jun 29 2014 19:56 -0400:
Quoth Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe:
Beyond rendering pages, the biggest
challenge seems to me to lie in coming up with a more intelligent
method of selecting links than the usual crufty vi/emacs/Lynx-style
interfaces.
I always liked the way elinks (I think) did it, with a numbers
mode where you type the number of the link you want to go to. I
did have a similar thing to that working with surf too, but it
doesn't work when you disable javascript, which is overall more
important for basic usability.
Link-numbering works, but it starts to break down with link-heavy
pages, or, worse, with numeric links. After trying to sift through
'Page 1[89] 2[90] 3[91] ... 20[92]' and similar horrors in elinks,
I had to disable it.
It's a fairly simple way to handle links, though.
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Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
