Elinks is my favourite browser and it'd be the only one if only it could handle images better. I don't mean it should became a graphical browser, not at all. I'll now expose my ideas on the topic.
First of all, sometimes I find it difficult to find on a page the image I'm interested in --- and if I don't know in advance what images to expect, it's difficult to see what's interesting and what's not. This is because on most web pages there are a lot of useless decorative images or, even worse, dummy tiny images like "spacer.gif", "blank.gif" etc. Next, here's what my idea to improve browsing. As the subject suggests, I'm thinking of an ``image manager''. Pressing a special key, say X (not the `X' key but an unknown :-)), should pop up a list of the images in the page through which the user can manipulate the page aspect. Each entry should contain something like <filename><alt attribute if present><number of occurrences>. One thing I'd like to be able to do is, for example, select some images to completely ignore (e.g. the "spacer.gif" images I mentioned above). Or select some or all of the images and start a viewer (zgv in my case) to view all of them (instead of looking for them one by one in the page and invoking zgv). (By the way, this idea could be extended to all media in a page, or to show all links etc.) I don't know if this is feasible or just crazy but ... I thought I'd just tell you. Best regards, N. Girardi _______________________________________________ elinks-dev mailing list [email protected] http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-dev
