040912 Edwin Davidson wrote: > Can a text-based web browser like Lynx really be used in 2004 > with web sites powered by Javascript, XML, ASP and the like ?
this seems to be arriving at lynx-dev every few weeks, so perhaps a response is in order. i'ld say Lynx is a niche player these days, but an important one. everyone has different needs & preferences, but mine lead me to use Konqueror (on Xfce4 on Gentoo Linux) as normal browser w Galeon in reserve & Firefox available, but almost never used. w broadband & KDE 3.2/3 support, Konqueror is as fast as anything, so Lynx's former appeal of speed in rendering has been bypassed. however, i do use Lynx for 3 things regularly: (1) sending news stories to others, wh is easier w Lynx + Mutt + Gvim ; (2) reading local HTML files, typically help dox of some kind ; (3) reading 1 major newspaper, wh ordinarily requires free registration, wh fails w Konqueror & Galeon for some reason (mb their bad cookies), but whose text is all accessible w Lynx w/o any need to login (i'm not saying wh paper it is, lest they change things (grin)!). it seems v unlikely that anyone now will take the trouble to write the code to allow Lynx to handle JS etc, but one never knows ... -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
