On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Alpheus Madsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Lynx Development Group, > > I was trying Lynx today to see if it could be a practical alternative to > Firefox. I tried going to "www.google.com"...but I found the page difficult > to navigate, and the page difficult to read. > This has caused me to wonder: would it be possible to fix these problems?
There are a number of ways to customize lynx so you get a result you like. Use the options page. Type the letter 'o'. Adjust and save. Edit /usr/local/etc/lynx.cfg if you have permission. Use command line options; type 'man lynx' to see them. > With regards to the "difficulty to read" problem, I think it's because a lot > of Google's formatting, as simple and stark as it is, is lost, making it > difficult to see where one search result ends and the other begins. This > makes me wonder if having a "Render HTML as ReStructuredText" or ASCII-Doc, > or even a variant of Markdown, would be highly useful. Apparently there's a > GPL project called "Pandoc" (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/) that would > be able to handle this, or at least, serve as an example of how it could be > done. Learn how to use the lynx browser on your system. You can make it extremely readable and fast, if you take the time. > My second issue--navigability--is probably a greater challenge. Tabbing > from link to link is rather painful, especially even when even a page as > simple as Google's now has a lot of links! If you are used to vi or emacs, turn those key bindings on, and enable text field activation. And it doesn't help that SSH and > PuTTY don't always play nice with the mouse. One idea that came to mind > would be to divide the screen into 10x10 character squares; then arrow keys > can go from square to square, and shift+arrow_key could navigate within the > square. I understand lynx works with a mouse, (I do this on win32), but again, it probably requires customization. > I hope you will find these ideas at least somewhat useful. In any case, > even if Lynx is somewhat difficult for me to use, I'm glad it's available if > the time comes when I need to use it! Perfectly reasonable and understandable (sounds like a new car driver asking for spherical wheels and a z-axis of movement) ;) > > Sincerely, > Alpheus Madsen. > > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev > _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
