Re: [dev] Text-only browser that sucks less?

2014-07-01 Thread Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
Quoth Silvan Jegen on Mon, Jun 30 2014 09:39 +0200: 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. Excellent idea. Would JavaScript e

Re: [dev] Text-only browser that sucks less?

2014-06-30 Thread Nick
Quoth M Farkas-Dyck: > On 30/06/2014, Silvan Jegen wrote: > > 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]... > > One would have to configure which characters are on the home row; 'b' > is not

Re: [dev] Text-only browser that sucks less?

2014-06-30 Thread Silvan Jegen
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:53 AM, M Farkas-Dyck wrote: > On 30/06/2014, Silvan Jegen wrote: >> 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]... > > One would have to configure which characters are o

Re: [dev] Text-only browser that sucks less?

2014-06-30 Thread M Farkas-Dyck
On 30/06/2014, Silvan Jegen wrote: > 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]... One would have to configure which characters are on the home row; 'b' is not on mine.

Re: [dev] Text-only browser that sucks less?

2014-06-30 Thread Silvan Jegen
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe 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

Re: [dev] Text-only browser that sucks less?

2014-06-29 Thread Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
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 thin

Re: [dev] Text-only browser that sucks less?

2014-06-29 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 06/29/14 at 07:56pm, Nick wrote: > 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 eli

Re: [dev] Text-only browser that sucks less?

2014-06-29 Thread Nick
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 y

Re: [dev] Text-only browser that sucks less?

2014-06-29 Thread Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
Quoth Teodoro Santoni on Sun, Jun 29 2014 00:57 +0200: though the controls are nice, despite the damn long cheatsheet required, edbrowse will soon suck a lot: it seems that they want to port the whole work to c++, to avoid nuisances (?) with Spidermonkey. That is unfortunate. They also describe

Re: [dev] Text-only browser that sucks less?

2014-06-28 Thread Teodoro Santoni
My most humble apologies for the spam, but I remembered that, though the controls are nice, despite the damn long cheatsheet required, edbrowse will soon suck a lot: it seems that they want to port the whole work to c++, to avoid nuisances (?) with Spidermonkey. -- Teodoro Santoni

Re: [dev] Text-only browser that sucks less?

2014-06-28 Thread Teodoro Santoni
Edbrowse? Lurking this 'cause I don't want to code "usable Linemode". -- Teodoro Santoni

[dev] Text-only browser that sucks less?

2014-06-28 Thread Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
w3m seems to be full of ad-hockery, while links/elinks are graphical browsers in disguise. All 3 are surprisingly massive. Are there any sane alternatives that are more interactive than running curl through html2text? -- Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe