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

[Seth House]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:23:56 -0800, Walter Ian Kaye
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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. ;)

You meant that tongue-in-cheek, I know. I see the broad adoption of
XHTML as a boon for Lynx since it facilitates more attention payed to
document structure and the probable end of using tables for layout (as
we've discussed
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2005-01/msg00123.html)).

This may call for a new thread but, what kind of attention have the
Lynx developers been focusing on XHTML or the Semantic Web? I'm new to
the list, but a quick poke through the archives didn't turn up much.

- whiteinge

> 
> >  >> 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)
> 
> 
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