On 20 May 2017 at 17:37, Richard Melville <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On 20 May 2017 at 15:15, akhiezer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > From: LM <[email protected]>
>> > Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 09:40:01 -0400
>>
>>
>> (( - was looking again t'other day at the links you included in recent
>> lfs-chat posts. Your work is interesting.
>> ))
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Forgot to mention, if you're just looking for a graphical web browser
>> > that will without X, you could also try D+ (Dillo fork) or Netrider
>> > (webkit based browser).  Both work in framebuffer mode using nano-x.
>> > Both were used in the nanolinux distribution (
>> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/nanolinux/ ) which doesn't use X
>> > Windows.
>>
>>
>> I'd suggest also netsurf; first used it in riscos on rpi, and now also
>> in X-less linux - as one of shortlist of browsers used.
>>
>
> OK, Netsurf does look incredibly interesting, and extremely configurable.
> It's also an ongoing project with seemingly plenty of support.  If I've the
> time soon I'll have a closer look, but currently I'm probably going to run
> with Links + SVGAlib.  Maybe it's something that could be added to the
> book.  Do you have any further comments or feedback on it?  I'll line it up
> for testing on my next build.
>

I've found the Netsurf GTK version in the Linux Mint repo on an old
laptop.  It's certainly fast, but, as a test I pointed it at the BBC
website as there is an image of this on the netsurf website. It's not
rendering nearly as well as shown.  Mind you, I seem to have an old
version, 2.9.2.

Richard
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