On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 09:04:54PM +0300, unix wrote: > Hello. My reasons for this proposition: > 1. The user will be able to test basic websites without installing > anything. > 2. The user will be able to read an incredibly useful official > FAQ, with no external devices involved. > 3. The user will be able to manage mailing list > membership via the web interface. > 4. Using ftp(1) and reading pure HTML is inconvenient. > 5. The browser (Lynx) was already included. It was removed due to > concerns about code quality, licensing, and support for insecure > protocols. > You could say that you don't need a browser installed by default if you > have a network connection and can install the package anyway. > Still, am I the only one who feels like it's pretty much the only thing > missing in the base for a comfortable day to day desktop usage? > So, if we include a browser, which one? [...] > If you know about any other options, I will be interested in > discussing them.
I do not want to derail the discussion but I think that if I can have a pendrive with O*BSD install, then I can also have another pendrive with some sources and maybe a bash script to compile them. For browsing on the text console, I like emacs-w3m, which (if I am correct) is w3m for rendering pages and emacs for showing them, with tabs and easy way to copy-paste fragments into other emacs buffer, be it a code or shell. I would probably also have lynx on this pendrive, because it can open gopher sites, so I can vent off some steam by looking at obsolete stuff. I realize that certain propositions are no-no for base system (and I totally agree with this), which is why my best option is to be my own guest and help myself. In my opinion none of text browsers I use nowadays (links/elinks, lynx && emacs-w3m) will work on every website (some are polite enough to tell me I need to turn js on). There is good chance with pages written for programmers, however. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
