Lynx

hi Tim,

I use it regularly not to browse the net but to read nicely formatted documentation (see the GNU project).

I strongly recommend its usage combined with screen, you could have several pages all in one terminal and a shortcut away.

Al

Because you can use it to "browse" on an ssh terminal connection when trapped inside someones firewall...

Because you can visit sites that you wouldn't otherwise dare touch in IE/FF/Chrome...

Because it impresses the feck out of the point'n'drool brigade...

Because I can :)

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I used to use it extensively as it gave me a reasonably secure 'net presence, low bandwidth link and implicitly filtered out all the images (back then, things like Flash didn't exist).

As most of my web surfing is in search of text (research papers, specific files to download, etc.) the text-only aspect would still be acceptable. However, more and more sites are scripted interfaces which I'm not sure Lynx would accommodate as intended.

(I still wish I had a button to disable images/graphics/animations on demand!)

I tell you two more.

"mutt" for email, which I regularly use and "slrn" for usenet (which I do not use).

Because real programmers don't use Pascal... :-)

bye,

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piergiorgio

Check.

I use 'tin', but same difference.

is really nice inside Lynx. I use it for real sometimes. Sadly the pictures don't come out so well.

Theo

Occasionally, you will find yourself with a very, very narrow pipe to the Internet that also has some kind of a data cap. The imperative is to use only what you need.

You can also sometimes find yourself with a link that is extremely unstable or just really, really doesn't like establishing new TCP sessions, thus making it very difficult to download all the crap pictures, scripts, iframes and what not.

Enter text browsers.

I always keep a copy of Lynx on my machine.

And on a somewhat related note, you know what I miss from the Old Web? That thing Internet Explorer 4 did where it would render as much of the page as it could, and then expand and rerender the page as more content got downloaded.

I don't have Flash installed! Works really good at blocking Flash apps! :> (so far, all it's cost me is the inability to watch silly cat videos, etc.)

I've been using NoScript with some success. Of course, it means incrementally reenabling particular domains for sites that insist on scripting everything.

firefox still does that.

note, however, that if the page uses an external sytlesheet none of the page can be rendered until the stylesheet has been loaded.

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Hi Don,

In sci.electronics.design Don Y wrote: []

same here, but I can still see silly cat videos with chromium and HTML5 *if* I really want to!

Al

Hi Piergiorgio,

In sci.electronics.design Piergiorgio Sartor wrote: []

I use alpine regularly.

I use tin regularly.

And why would that be so?

I have Firefox add-on installed that lets me download flash animations (which I can view elsewhere). But, aside from testing it to familiarize myself with its operation, I've never actually *used* it!

SWMBO "misses" the Flash-ability as many of her friends/colleagues take to emailing her links to various bits of fluff. However, I think she has come to realize that she's not really missing anything of substance!

I've toyed with the idea of setting up this machine with something like Deep Freeze -- or, even building a new "restore image" for it such that I can overwrite the disk with the original system image quickly (a matter of minutes). But, so far, that hasn't risen to the level of importance to make it onto the REAL ToDo list! :-/

On 2014-08-13 16:32, alb wrote: [...]

:-)

bye,

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piergiorgio

I sometimes use lynx in a shell by calling up "lynx ." to browse through files and directories.

Piker. BTDT. Then i got smarter and learned more directly powerful languages that saved me typing time. ByBy machine code. I still find toy languages disgusting. Pascal used to be such, then wiser heads took over. Tough toenails.

?-)

Hi boB,

In sci.electronics.design boB wrote: []

hey that rocks! and opening up file is much faster, you simply select it and hit 'return'. I wonder which default application it is using... jee I should stop reading and start working today!

In article , Don Y wrote: .. web browsing ... }(I still wish I had a button to disable images/graphics/animations }on demand!)

Then I suggest you try Opera.

I (capital i) toggles the display of images.

G toggles use of style (very useful for those pages which have dark writing on a black background, or yellow text on white).

F12 brings up a menu on which you can toggle animated images (E), Javascript (a), and cookies (c), and others, as well as a dialog (d) which allows you to save per-site preferences for some of these.

Does it inhibit their *download*, as well? I.e., if you can prevent them from being "fetched" by the browser, often the pages can display at lightning speed!

For "normal" browsers AdBlock Plus is useful in that regard, and NoScript allows selective execution of JavaScript, and Ghostery allows trackers to be blocked.

AdblockPlus is especially beneficial when connected via 3G

Yeah, I've used AdBlock and currently use NoScript.

But, ages ago, (e.g., Netscape days) you could inhibit all "pictures" (which I assume could easily be defined with specific mime types) from download. Then, if you decided you wanted to see them, you could INDIVIDUALLY download those of interest *or* enable all of them, again. Because each image had a particular spot on the page, it was easy to identify which ones would likely be interesting/pertinent and which would be ads, fluff, etc.

E.g., with NoScript, you have to play a guessing game as to which domains you want to temporarily enable for that page (usually you can make educated guesses and hit it on the first or second pass without having to resort to enabling "all on this page")