I used to use elinks for a lot of stuff but lately, so many websites make heavy of javascript and AJAX. Most of my experiences with such sites is that elinks totally fails on them. More often than not, I find myself mostly using Firefox with Gnome to do my web browsing lately. I just find too many sites which don't work with elinks. Also, as a blind person, I use Orca's structural navigation keys to move around in the page quickly. This is not possible with text browsers. When I say structural navigation, I'm talking about shortcut keys to move the cursor to desired landmarks on the page like heading entries, tables, form fields, etc.
I do appreciate the comments about being able to use ssh to run elinks; that's an excellent point. Also, extracting text formatted pages is a good point. I just can't get over the javascript rich pages which won't work with elinks because the javascript support in elinks is willfully inadaquite for today's job. On 07/04/2010 03:05 PM, David Collins wrote: > Joe<joebsulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> [07/04/10] At 1:51AM PDT, Ludo Beckers wrote: >>> as a regular Linux-user (non-developer) what are the benefits of using >>> elinks, other than that it is nice for older machines to have fast >>> webbrowsing? >> >> No need to install an ad blocking extension ;) >> >> For me, the ability to dump a page to (usually) >> nicely-formatted plaint text is one of the main reasons I use >> elinks.<ESC> F v within elinks, or by using -dump, reduces a >> cluttered website to bytes. >> > > no flash, images, poorly thought out colour codes to get in the way of > content. If content is restricted based on ip, ie for downloading > academic papers you can still access them via ssh. Sessions can be > regularly saved automatically to maintain those always used and last > open pages. It doesn't crash as often as graphical browsers, doesn't > take an age to load/move tabs compared to graphical browsers if the > computer in under load. You can browse if you have hosed your X and > need to find out how to fix it. You join the ranks of super-geek :P > > _______________________________________________ > elinks-users mailing list > elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users _______________________________________________ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
