Re: lynx-dev LYNX: hey, guys: Just what are we gonna *DO*?

[Vlad Harchev]

On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 04:00:44PM +0200, clemens fischer wrote:
> > > Vlad Harchev:
> > 
> > >  I don't try textmode browsers personally then - switch to using mozilla.
> > >  But if you are limited to textmode only - try links version 2 (sometimes 
> > > it's
> > > called elinks) - it supports simple javascript..
> > 
> > i think you mean "glinks" (the g for graphic) instead of the otherwise
> > unrelated elinks.  elinks and glinks have the same ancestorial codebase,
> > but elinks evolved into a textbrowser with eg. built-in (lua) scripting,
> > whereas glinks is independantly developed by a team having the original
> > inventor of links (mikulas patocka).
> 
> The version 2 he's referring to does link to some graphics libraries,

 Yeah, exactly.

> but they don't automatically come into play (I haven't spent the time
> to see why - noting that it wasn't a release version):

 You should use a commandline option:

links -g
        to start it in X (and some other switch to start it with SVGAlib).
 Default mode is text mode.

 Best regards,
  -Vlad


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