Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 08:48:01 -0600 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu> To: wincent <wincent@dingoblue.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: web browser alternatives to n-scape Message-ID: <m11tu0C-000QjWC@hawkins.cba.uni.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from wincent <wincent@dingoblue.net.au> of "Fri, 03 Dec 1999 17:04:48 %2B1030." <B46DA8B0.1B6E%wincent@dingoblue.net.au>
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> The server almost never gets touched, it just sits there serving. It doesn't
> even have X installed. So, on those rare occasions when I do need to browse
> something from the server (or from a telnet window connected to the server),
> then Lynx is the way to go.
> And it is very fast.
Aside from frames, javascript, and java being almost as evil as
blinking . . . :)
Lynx can also hash through some of those criminal navigationmaps that
want to load a 5 meg image of something stupid for you to click at. If
netscape doesn't load the image, you can't go on. Lynx simply shows you
the links.
The only reason I use netscaperather than lynx most ofthe timeis that
when I'm reading a newssite (or almost any other), I spawn windows to
read them. Once I have a half an hour to dink around with the config
files for lynx to make the . command on an html launch an xterm with
lynx running on it, I'm going to have *very*little use for netscape.
Also, lynx has much better cookie handling--Yes/no/never/always.
Finally, unless you're displaying graphical information, if your site
doesn't display properly on lynx, it's just plain broken. So there. :)
--
Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu
(319) 266-7114 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk
These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
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