On 22 May 2002, clemensF wrote: > just curious. lynx can be trusted to cover the entire kuddelmuddel called > "world wide web". it is well represented by Thomas Dickey. links is now > what many hope for: browsing in text-mode and also capable of > javascript and graphics, running native code for each platform, of which > are many. elinks has no javascript, but lua and is very alive under > professional-class development.
you appear to be referring to w3m (the javascript support still appears to be pre-alpha). The graphics are interesting (a little fragile though). > Mikulas Patocka is for links, Petr "pasky" Baudis for elinks. there are > other projects whose goal is "good surfing": > > Dillo Web Browser :: Home Page, small, graphical > http://dillo.cipsga.org.br/ (at least they put dates in their changelog - compare with elinks ;-) > there's also netrik, text mode browser with ecma javascript > http://netrik.sourceforge.net/ netrik is (based on actual code to advertisements) about 95% vaporware. > my questions: > > x. do the people named in this document cooperate actively? probably not (they have different goals) > x. will we see a cross ported version of the best of links <-> elinks? it's too soon to tell if elinks will become links, or if one will be abandoned... (I put a copy of elinks on one of my machines, but the quality was not noticeably improved). -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
