Lynx

If you're a certain kind of weird, the Linx text-based web browser still 
works: you can install it in about 30 seconds on a Linux machine.

Then you can wonder why in @#$% you bothered.

-- 

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

On 2014-08-12, Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> wrote:
> If you're a certain kind of weird, the Linx text-based web browser still 
> works: you can install it in about 30 seconds on a Linux machine.
>
> Then you can wonder why in @#$% you bothered.
>

Because you can use it to "browse" on an ssh terminal connection when
trapped inside someones firewall...

Because you can visit sites that you wouldn't otherwise dare touch
in IE/FF/Chrome...

Because it impresses the feck out of the point'n'drool brigade...

Because I can :) 

-- 
Ian

"Tamahome!!!" - "Miaka!!!"

Hi Tim,

On 8/12/2014 12:23 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:
> If you're a certain kind of weird, the Linx text-based web browser still
> works: you can install it in about 30 seconds on a Linux machine.
>
> Then you can wonder why in @#$% you bothered.

I used to use it extensively as it gave me a reasonably secure
'net presence, low bandwidth link and implicitly filtered out
all the images (back then, things like Flash didn't exist).

As most of my web surfing is in search of text (research papers,
specific files to download, etc.) the text-only aspect would
still be acceptable.  However, more and more sites are scripted
interfaces which I'm not sure Lynx would accommodate as intended.

(I still wish I had a button to disable images/graphics/animations
on demand!)

On 2014-08-12 21:23, Tim Wescott wrote:
> If you're a certain kind of weird, the Linx text-based web browser still 
> works: you can install it in about 30 seconds on a Linux machine.

I tell you two more.

"mutt" for email, which I regularly use and
"slrn" for usenet (which I do not use).

> Then you can wonder why in @#$% you bothered.

Because real programmers don't use Pascal... :-)

bye,

-- 

piergiorgio

In comp.arch.embedded Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.removethis.de> wrote:
> On 2014-08-12 21:23, Tim Wescott wrote:
> > If you're a certain kind of weird, the Linx text-based web browser still 
> > works: you can install it in about 30 seconds on a Linux machine.
> 
> I tell you two more.
> 
> "mutt" for email, which I regularly use and

Check.

> "slrn" for usenet (which I do not use).

I use 'tin', but same difference.

> > Then you can wonder why in @#$% you bothered.

https://m.facebook.com/
is really nice inside Lynx.  I use it for real sometimes.
Sadly the pictures don't come out so well.

Theo

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:23:16 -0500, Tim Wescott wrote:

> If you're a certain kind of weird, the Linx text-based web browser still
> works: you can install it in about 30 seconds on a Linux machine.
> 
> Then you can wonder why in @#$% you bothered.

Occasionally, you will find yourself with a very, very narrow pipe to the 
Internet that also has some kind of a data cap. The imperative is to use 
only what you need.

You can also sometimes find yourself with a link that is extremely 
unstable or just really, really doesn't like establishing new TCP 
sessions, thus making it very difficult to download all the crap 
pictures, scripts, iframes and what not.

Enter text browsers.

I always keep a copy of Lynx on my machine.

And on a somewhat related note, you know what I miss from the Old Web? 
That thing Internet Explorer 4 did where it would render as much of the 
page as it could, and then expand and rerender the page as more content 
got downloaded.

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:47:49 -0700, Don Y <this@is.not.me.com> wrote:


>(I still wish I had a button to disable images/graphics/animations
>on demand!)

If you use Firefox as your "real" browser, there's an excellent flash
blocker called FlashBlocker :-)  And there's another plug-in that will
block any graphics, stops animated gifs and so on.  Forget the name
but it's easy to find.  The only thing it won't handle is javascript
animations.  I hope they're working on that.

I use another plug-in called QuickJava that lets me turn Java, JS,
Flash, silverlight and something else on the fly.  Unfortunately more
and more pages just die when JS is turned off.

John

John DeArmond
http://www.neon-john.com
http://www.fluxeon.com 
Tellico Plains, Occupied TN
See website for email address

Hi John,

On 8/12/2014 6:39 PM, Neon John wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:47:49 -0700, Don Y<this@is.not.me.com>  wrote:
>
>> (I still wish I had a button to disable images/graphics/animations
>> on demand!)
>
> If you use Firefox as your "real" browser, there's an excellent flash
> blocker called FlashBlocker :-)

I don't have Flash installed!  Works really good at blocking Flash
apps!  :>  (so far, all it's cost me is the inability to watch silly
cat videos, etc.)

> And there's another plug-in that will
> block any graphics, stops animated gifs and so on.  Forget the name
> but it's easy to find.  The only thing it won't handle is javascript
> animations.  I hope they're working on that.
>
> I use another plug-in called QuickJava that lets me turn Java, JS,
> Flash, silverlight and something else on the fly.  Unfortunately more
> and more pages just die when JS is turned off.

I've been using NoScript with some success.  Of course, it means
incrementally reenabling particular domains for sites that insist on
scripting everything.

On 2014-08-13, Aleksandar Kuktin <akuktin@gmail.com> wrote:

> And on a somewhat related note, you know what I miss from the Old Web? 
> That thing Internet Explorer 4 did where it would render as much of the 
> page as it could, and then expand and rerender the page as more content 
> got downloaded.

firefox still does that.

note, however, that if the page uses an external sytlesheet none of the page
can be rendered until the stylesheet has been loaded.

-- 
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Hi Don,

In sci.electronics.design Don Y <this@is.not.me.com> wrote:
[]
>> If you use Firefox as your "real" browser, there's an excellent flash
>> blocker called FlashBlocker :-)
> 
> I don't have Flash installed!  Works really good at blocking Flash
> apps!  :>  (so far, all it's cost me is the inability to watch silly
> cat videos, etc.)

same here, but I can still see silly cat videos with chromium and HTML5 *if* I 
really want to!

Al