Re: Re: [Lynx-dev] can Lynx be used today ? (fwd)

2004-10-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Petr Baudis wrote: Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:12:32AM CEST, I got a letter, where [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me, that... it seems v unlikely that anyone now will take the trouble to write the code to allow Lynx to handle JS etc, but one never knows ... FYI,

Re: [Lynx-dev] can Lynx be used today ? (fwd)

2004-09-12 Thread A. R. Vener
After using lynx 2.8.4 for several years, I finally upgraded to lynx 2.8.5. It seems to work, but when I access https sites, I get the message: ssl error unable to get local issuer certificate. continue? (y): hitting 'y' gets past the ssl error and I connect. This problem never happened with

Re: [Lynx-dev] can Lynx be used today ? (fwd)

2004-09-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, A. R. Vener wrote: After using lynx 2.8.4 for several years, I finally upgraded to lynx 2.8.5. It seems to work, but when I access https sites, I get the message: ssl error unable to get local issuer certificate. continue? (y): Here's some relevant discussion of the

Re: [Lynx-dev] can Lynx be used today ? (fwd)

2004-09-12 Thread purslow
040912 Edwin Davidson wrote: Can a text-based web browser like Lynx really be used in 2004 with web sites powered by Javascript, XML, ASP and the like ? this seems to be arriving at lynx-dev every few weeks, so perhaps a response is in order. i'ld say Lynx is a niche player these days, but an

Re: [Lynx-dev] can Lynx be used today ? (fwd)

2004-09-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 040912 Edwin Davidson wrote: Can a text-based web browser like Lynx really be used in 2004 with web sites powered by Javascript, XML, ASP and the like ? this seems to be arriving at lynx-dev every few weeks, so perhaps a response is in order.

Re: [Lynx-dev] can Lynx be used today ?

2004-08-02 Thread Doug Kaufman
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Edwin Davidson wrote: Can a text-based web browser like Lynx really be used in 2004 with web sites powered by Javascript, XML, ASP and the like ? A local freenet that I have an account with (and have had for 9 years) uses Lynx as it's web browser and I do like it but Lynx

Re: [Lynx-dev] can Lynx be used today ?

2004-08-02 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 11:02p -0700 08/01/2004, Doug Kaufman didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: I use lynx as my preferred browser, and only use a graphical browser when I need pictorial information or when javascript needs to be used. There are a few sites that are very unfriendly to lynx, but the vast

Re: [Lynx-dev] can Lynx be used today ?

2004-08-02 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Dixitur illum [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribere... Can a text-based web browser like Lynx really be used in 2004 with web sites powered by Javascript, XML, ASP and the like ? Yes. I'm using lynx even with pictured pages, and links+ for all cases where it's really needed. There are only two pages which

Re: [Lynx-dev] can Lynx be used today ?

2004-08-02 Thread gilmap
In a recent note, Walter Ian Kaye said: Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 01:55:44 -0700 Ditto to what Doug said; exactly the same here. I even set up Lynx as my default browser on Mac OS X, and have used it on several occasions How do you do this? Is there an AppleScript involved? Will you share?

Re: [Lynx-dev] can Lynx be used today ?

2004-08-02 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 07:21a -0600 08/02/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: In a recent note, Walter Ian Kaye said: Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 01:55:44 -0700 Ditto to what Doug said; exactly the same here. I even set up Lynx as my default browser on Mac OS X, and have used it on