Re: Lynx as primary browser (was Re: [Lynx-dev] how to maximize client area???)

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 09:53p +0000 01/30/2005, Thorsten Glaser didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

> Stef Caunter dixit:
>
>  >On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 address@hidden wrote:
>  >
>  >> surely, anyone outside the poorest parts of the World today
>  >> has access to Firefox, Konqueror & other graphical browsers,
>  >> which display WWW pages as their authors intend them to be seen.
>
> FUD.
>
> * I design my web pages (e.g. http://mirbsd.mirsolutions.de/ ) to
>   be optimised for Lynx and still look not too bad in Konqueror,

Me too. ;)

>   and be XHTML/1.1 compliant.

Screw xhtml. <g>  I'm sticking with HTML, just like I stick with Lynx. :-)
I expect both to outlive me. ;)

>  >> Lynx still has important uses, but in limited contexts.
>
> No, Lynx is the primary browser for many people, including myself.
> I'm using it for about 98% of all websites.

On the wonderfully graphic Mac OS X, I set up Lynx as my default browser. :D
But it's not sticking... think I need to add a plist to my 
AppleScript applet to claim the MIME types and filename extensions... 
perhaps I'll just copy/paste from Netscape....

>  >But I won't see lynx marginalized here. For many people it is our primary
>  >browser for HTTP; no one's personal usage has a priori primacy in 
> a universal
>  >context. The lynx browser is as useful as you choose to make it.
>
> And it's the only browser I know which supports
> * textfields-need-activation

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

> * navigation by numbering links and form fields
> * partial displaying with a threshold of 1

?

> * a source view starting where in the rendered form
>   of the page you're in right now

Eh? Is that a special setting? My Lynx always goes to the top of the page.

The only "starting where..." that works for me is editing bookmarks, 
but that only works right for a few hundred links; after that there's 
a cumulative error in line counting. Perhaps I should report that 
separately as a bug....

> * tables rendered in a way not trashing keyboard navigation
>   when not using numbered
> * spawning $EDITOR on a form field (COOL!)

OmniWeb has something similar -- click a tiny box in a corner of the 
text field and up pops an editor window.

> I miss a few things, but I can live with it.
> And not one of these features I miss does a
> graphical browser give me.

P...r...0...n. LOL


-boo
 whose Lynx bookmark file is about a megabyte (to-do list: learn how to manage
 multiple bookmark files)