Re: Q Lynx show web pics?

[Daniel Reuter <reuter@Uni-Hohenheim.DE>]

Hello Jonathan,

> Can Lynx show web site gifs? 

Yes it can, provided you are running it in a X-Terminal and have an
image-viewer for X installed or you have svgalib and zgv. Of course, the
images are not shown inline with the text, but lynx can be configured,
that when you follow a link to an image, it will spawn the correct viewer
and show you the image. Check out lynx's manpage and check for the
config-files. There you can setup the viewers for certain mime-types.
(Don't remember how exactly to do it, but if you don't get it done, feel
free to mail me once again)

> Can Links or anything besides the
> Netscape/Mozilla/Opera crowd?

There are some nice (relatively) lightweight browsers out on the web,
which use Mozilla's rendering engine, but have got a simpler, cleaner user
interface (galeon, g2). But they require a complete Mozilla installation,
so they are lightweight only in RAM usage, not in diskspace usage.
Nice simple textmode browser is w3m, which has the advantage over lynx,
that it can render tables and frames very well.

Regards,
Daniel