Re: New unofficial links web browser packages
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:48:09AM -0500, Eugene Brevdo wrote:
> Links version 2.1pre11 has the old character mode and all the features
> therein, plus:
>
> * A GUI mode (Frame buffer and lightweight X11)
Yes, and it won't obey if you tell it to run using the ncurses interface
when it can find a working X session (like running it inside a *term).
It's also got this *odd* idea about screen geometry... it creates a window
almost as large as my xinerama display (2560x1024) with its origin offset
left of zero by 28 pixels and up 10 or 12. It apparently has trouble with
window managers supporting "don't touch" areas such as panels.
IMHO it should respect the geometry of the *term it was started from. It
should also allow the use of the character mode display when you want it.
Vim-gtk operates this way.
> * SSL support (links against openssl like links-ssl packages do)
Didn't try it, wouldn't care if it supported it or not.
> * Javascript support
Yah, terribly annoying about it, too. Asks you alla time if it's OK to do
things. Not that I have much use for javascript, I'd probably build it
without it if it were possible.
> It makes for a nice light-weight alternative to browsers like mozilla and
> konqueror, but beats the text-based browsing and limited feature sets of
> other branches of the other linkses and lynxes.
It has all of the usual links annoyances, yes. Lynx is still far superior
for my uses.
That's not to knock your packaging of it, which appears to be fine. It
works, it installs properly, it uninstalls properly.
(Hey, first you mentioned it in #debian, then you posted here, I figured
what the hell, try it.)
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