Bug#917406: O: elinks -- advanced text-mode WWW browser
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I'm orphaning elinks. It's been mostly dead upstream for a while
(although there's a fork at https://github.com/rkd77/felinks which
is seeing some activity) and it's deficits wrt fully-fledged TLS
support make it less and less useful as a web browser (I'm actually
using links2 myself these days).
elinks still has some features not found in other text-based browsers
(like support for rendering the actual colours of an HTML document),
but if noone picks it up, it's probably best to remove it when the
bullseye development cycle starts.
The package description is:
ELinks is a feature-rich program for browsing the web in text mode. It is
like enhanced Lynx and Links. The most noteworthy features of ELinks are:
.
* Lots of protocols (local files, finger, HTTP(S), FTP, IPv4/6 etc.)
* Internationalized domain names
* Persistent cookies, HTTP authentication and proxy authentication
* Tabbed browsing, good looking menus and dialogs, and key-binding manager
* History browsing and typeahead searches
* Forms history and completion, and history in commonly used input dialogs
* CSS support and support for browser scripting (Perl, Lua, Guile etc.)
* Tables and frames rendering, and configurable color support
* Compressed and background (non-blocking) downloads, and download resuming
ELinks is a feature-rich program for browsing the web in text mode. It is
like enhanced Lynx and Links. The most noteworthy features of ELinks are:
.
* Lots of protocols (local files, finger, HTTP(S), FTP, IPv4/6 etc.)
* Internationalized domain names
* Persistent cookies, HTTP authentication and proxy authentication
* Tabbed browsing, good looking menus and dialogs, and key-binding manager
* History browsing and typeahead searches
* Forms history and completion, and history in commonly used input dialogs
* CSS support and support for browser scripting (Perl, Lua, Guile etc.)
* Tables and frames rendering, and configurable color support
* Compressed and background (non-blocking) downloads, and download resuming
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