On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 05:43:00AM +0300, Gabriel Dragomir wrote:
> hello all,
>
> dear friends, is there anybody using lynx anymore ?
>
> are updates done for this application ?
sure - there's always a backlog of bug-reports to investigate
see for example
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgr
Quoth Gabriel Dragomir: 'dear friends, is there anybody using lynx
anymore ?'
'If you're feeling technically adventurous (or nostalgic),
some text-only browsers are around. These include Lynx, which dates
back to the early 1990s, and the much newer Browsh.'
https://www.n
2018-09-20 4:43 UTC+02:00, Gabriel Dragomir :
> hello all,
Hello!
> dear friends, is there anybody using lynx anymore ?
Sure, Gabriel :-)
Have a look at http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/ that hints that
sereval persone use lynx.
> we can promote it as a very hipster style of navi
It is the only browserr I use. Many blind folk stick with it for its text only
approach, ease of use with screen readers and speed.
I just got the most recent version, as a mac user it is available in macports
or homebrew:
Lynx 2.8.9rel.1
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, Gabriel Dragomir wrote:
> hell
Someone should educate that reporter about Lynx and its uses.
After all there are still many parts of the world where the broadband
required to load major graphics is not available.
there is the safety and freedom from heavy graphic dependents too.
plus the ease of reading especially on small
> dear friends, is there anybody using lynx anymore ?
Enough that this list is active.
Speaking personally, it's the only browser I use. At work, I used to
use Firefox, until one day when it decided to "upgrade" itself without
even telling, much less asking, me - despite my having turned off ev
Just adding a real world example from about ten minutes ago.
Part of my professional life is as a journalist myself.
I have the old google news set as the homepage for lynx here at
shellworld.
This morning there was a shooting in Maryland, and preferring local
sources, I chose an article from
nytimes.com, washingtonpost.com, newyorker.com (and many
others) rely on users' browsers to keep track of the pages they have
accessed so as to limit use. Although lynx keeps cookies, it doesn't
run the script (or whatever it is) that these sites use, thus one can
browse them without lim
> nytimes.com, washingtonpost.com, newyorker.com (and many others) rely
> on users' browsers to keep track of the pages they have accessed so
> as to limit use. Although lynx keeps cookies, it doesn't run the
> script (or whatever it is) that these sites use, thus one can browse
> them without lim
