On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 02:39:08PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > -- > Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://invisible-island.net > ftp://invisible-island.net
> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 13:59:36 -0400 > From: "Philip Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: lynx-dev LYNX: hey, guys: Just what are we gonna *DO*? > To: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: lynx-dev listserv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 020810 someone asked re the future of Lynx in view of JS etc: > > the thing that has partly marginalised Lynx for me is broadband. > with Opera 6.02 (on Linux) & an ADSL connection, > i can get everything incl graphics as quickly as with Lynx 2-8-5dev6. not everything - each of the browsers I use has problems with different sites. For instance none of IE/NS/Opera was able to navigate to a download URL for a patch that one of the Linux i18n groups had for xterm. I used lynx for that (and experimented with w3m/links, but they didn't get as far as Opera - ugly site, I admit). > Lynx remains better for text-heavy sites, eg Washington Post, > & for e-mailing news articles to friends (i can use Mutt + GVim). > i haven't tried Galeon (good reports), Mozilla 1.0 or Konqueror 3.1 , > but all would seem more promising than (g/e)Links or W3M . > > BTW TD: previous messages from me haven't appeared on lynx-dev. > if this one doesn't make it, could you please forward it there yourself > & might you have any suggestion what has gone wrong (not your fault)? I don't know - I assume you subscribed with the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address? -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
