Re: Stripped down versions of software
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:20:52PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Or links. Once I found links I gave up on lynx. Something about doing
> tables properly. :)
I never understood why the lynx team had such a hard time with that
one. I remember using lynx at the library on a WYSE terminal in
elementary school (I'm 21) before tables came out and it was a
mindblowing web-browser considering the limitations of the medium[0].
And then tables happened. And lynx couldn't figure out what to do
with it and just said [TABLE], with no way to view the darn table
without viewing source. Then lynx got table support, and it was a
good start. But then they never went anywhere with it.
lynx used to be the state of the art browser on the console. But then
it's like they lost the will to live or something. I'm glad to see
elinks take up where lynx lets off.
[0] I mean, you are basically doing desktop publishing in an 80x24
space trying to render a webpage on a tty.
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