> I like Lynx a lot and if I never wanted to see a picture I would certainly
> use it. But that's not what most of us want or need. I'm not familiar with
> the new Lynxes you speak of.
The latest versions of lynx show images/pictures in on the screen
in one of several ways. If you double click, or go to a picture
symbol and hit <ENTER> you can view the picture with your favorite
image viewer. This works somewhat like the MIME attachments in
email. In fact lynx reads the customary mailcap that specifies
different viewer programs for different kinds of files.
This is not 100% satisfactory, since you can not see the picture/text
layout of the page, as one could if one say all the pictures at the
same time. Perhaps a later addition will provide an option to show
all images on the page in sequence, like the familar slide show
option of viewers.
The current lynx also impliments SSL 128bit encryption, so those who
want to can to transactions with their bank, etc.
Both features are part of the dos port which works fine.
I my sadly admit that my personal experience with arachne has been
that a fair number of pages I wanted to see, archane could not handle,
or rendered extremely slowly. The amount was sufficiently high that
I abandoned using arachne as my main browser.
On the other hand lynx shows me 99.9% of what I want to see. So my
priorities these days is : try lynx first, if pictures are important
try archne, if worse comes to worse open win 3.11 and use netscape
4.7.
