Re: Thinkpad 560,need Hints/Experiences
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 04:41:29PM +0000, Yves Rutschle wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 07:58:49AM -0800, Heather Stern wrote:
> > Unfortunately decent GUI-but-not-X browsers aren't too thick on the
> > ground; in fact if you know of one that's any good please chime in.
> > There are a bunch of text mode browsers and with zgv and a good set
> > of lines in /etc/mailcap lynx can quite happily view graphics... when
> > you select them.
>
> I'd suggest you have a look at links. It's better than lynx
> in text mode (does tables or frames better.. Not sure which,
> but I _know_ it looks much nicer) and then if you compile it
> yourself you can get 'links -g' which works in graphics
> mode, either under X or directly on svgalib (although I
> haven't tried that myself). links -g renders pretty well;
> have a look at the screenshots on the homepage:
>
> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links/
If you can only have one browser, it's certainly cool to think of one
that might work in both modes.
I personally stick with lynx because I love to cut-n-paste from web
pages, and links is far too helpfully aware of the mouse to let me do
that :(
Its ability to handle tables rocks though
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