On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe <first.lord.of.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Better than link-numbering using numbers is the link-enumeration using characters on the homerow on the keyboard: Page 1[aa] 2[ab] 3[js]... I am not aware of a text-based browser that works that way though. Cheers, Silvan
