On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Henry Nelson wrote:
>> for the internet. Even if lynx will never be comparable to these products
>
>?? Lynx is incomparably superior to Netscape or MSIE in so many ways.
>*THEY* are the ones which need improvement, not Lynx. If people want and
This is such a totally one-sided opinion (one-sided opinion? I guess that's
redundant) that I've got to respond.
I use Lynx (and links, and w3m), and use them a lot. I _also_ use icab
and IE. IE is the fallback because it _WORKS_ with all sites that I need
to use (well, a lot of sites have stupid VBScripts that give me error windows
with IE because I'm on a Mac)... and IE has the BEST printing capabilities
I've seen (the shrink-to-fit is indispensible).. I very rarely print, but
when I do, I do it with IE.
I use the OTHER browsers because they're faster, but I use IE if the
other ones don't work (because of JavaScript or some other problem(s)).
Yes, most of these are problems of the sites themselves, but saying
that Lynx is "incomparabaly superior" when IE (and presumably Netscape)
works on a _superset_ of the web sites that Lynx works on, I had to
defend it a bit.
If/when iCab has fully working JavaScript and any other things I need that
it doesn't support (I don't think it works on as many https sites as IE),
then I'll use IE even less.. But since Lynx likely won't ever support
JavaScript (to the extent that the sites I want/need to use work), I
just HAD to defend GUI browsers (and IE) a little bit.
As an example, I start up IE when I want to use my witcapital.com account..
since nothing else works well with it.. and I go to that AT LEAST once
a week.. (damn, I didn't get picked to be in on the PALM IPO today.. CRAP.)
