Stef Caunter dixit: >On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> surely, anyone outside the poorest parts of the World today >> has access to Firefox, Konqueror & other graphical browsers, >> which display WWW pages as their authors intend them to be seen.
FUD. * I design my web pages (e.g. http://mirbsd.mirsolutions.de/ ) to be optimised for Lynx and still look not too bad in Konqueror, and be XHTML/1.1 compliant. * The only browser faster than Lynx is Dillo, which is just broken. * Graphical browsers (especially Firefox(tm)) start _very_ slow and are _very_ ressource-hungry * Graphical browsers imply a GUI, which is not always what I have (e.g. when I'm sitting on a vt420, or lending me a shell at a friend's laptop, ssh to home, lynx, have my bookmarks and cookies and all) * Graphical browsers don't run in screen (I tend to kill my X by accident) >> Lynx still has important uses, but in limited contexts. No, Lynx is the primary browser for many people, including myself. I'm using it for about 98% of all websites. Links+ (in X11, with pics) for 1.8% of all websites and as image-viewer (Manga scans, e.g. www.narutofan.com has some), and Firefox(tm) or Konqueror, depending on which is there, for the remaining 0.2%. >I think choice to have or not have indents is important; personally, I -dump >out pages and have to :%s/^ // out the spaces in vi, and anything over 79 >cols wraps, (small gripe). Funny enough, lynx -dump sometimes honours 80c and sometimes (eg. when run in an xterm or from midnight commander, don't remember) doesn't ;) But post-processing in jupp (joe-editor.sf.net) is easy too. >But I won't see lynx marginalized here. For many people it is our primary >browser for HTTP; no one's personal usage has a priori primacy in a universal >context. The lynx browser is as useful as you choose to make it. And it's the only browser I know which supports * textfields-need-activation * navigation by numbering links and form fields * partial displaying with a threshold of 1 * a source view starting where in the rendered form of the page you're in right now * tables rendered in a way not trashing keyboard navigation when not using numbered * spawning $EDITOR on a form field (COOL!) I miss a few things, but I can live with it. And not one of these features I miss does a graphical browser give me. bye, //mirabile _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
