Chris Knadle wrote:
On Friday 27 August 2010 23:11:39 Ron Guerin wrote:
Chris Knadle wrote:
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I tend to flip back-and-forth between Firefox (Iceweasel), Konqueror,
Arora, Lynx, and Elinks depending on what I'm doing.
I install a lot of browsers for the sake of testing, and partly I
suppose because I don't feel that anything we've seen yet is the last
word on "best ever". I do all my heavy lifting in Firefox right now,
but for various reasons (testing things logged in vs. not logged in
being a common case) I often keep a second browser open. Right now that
second browser is Chrome, but my preferred second choice is Epiphany.
I occasionally also use Epiphany for browsing "risky" domains that I think are
associated with "junk email" domains. These are usually recognizable --
typically they only contain an "opt-out" box which is likely used in the
background to "opt-in" without your consent for every other domain they
have...
I don't use Lynx much anymore, I think because there's so much these
days that can't be used without JavaScript.
One reason I need Lynx is to read documentation in HTML that's on a remote box
that I'm accessing through an SSH connection. It's also very useful to have
Lynx around to check your own website pages for accessibility purposes.
I do use it for testing. But that means I use it about the same as
another half dozen browsers I have installed, which is to say not much.
My main text browser for
the last couple of years has been dog, because it's been handy for
examining questionable URLs sent to my URL shortener.
Similarly checking for spam pages. Makes sense.
My girlfriend Criss uses this URL shortener, which she seems happy with.
It's in PHP and uses MySQL for the DB backend.
http://yourls.org/
At the moment I don't think there's any URL shortener within Debian AFAIK.
I'm trying to re-write mine to be less horrible code and to take into
account some reasonable feature requests I've gotten, like translation
files. I'd be honored if it somehow got into Debian after that,
although I thought they had higher standards than anything I produce.
I can tell the copy I run publicly is mostly used by FLOSS types though
by the URLs they submit, which serves as something of a FLOSS trending
news feed for me. I'm trying to think of a good way to make that
information available. TinyURL and Bit.ly get more new URLs in an hour
than I get all year probably, but I seem to serve a specific niche.
FWIW, most requests I've gotten have to do with methods of shortening,
and for a more formal API, not for the myriad of other things one gets
with bit.ly. The API scares me a bit because experience suggests those
most interested in using an API are the Bad People Of The Internet, and
abuse seems to have been the demise of many other open source URL
shorteners. Did I mention that 90% of the effort I put into the code
has to do with abuse of the service?
Wow. Way off topic now. Chromium!
- Ron
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