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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 2006 00:41:17 -0600
From:      "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To:        a <a@zeos.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: elinks-0.11.1: "make install" fails
Message-ID:  <ef10de9a0602282241j22853c4epd25b2c0acf68d59@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <004601c63ce9$11176430$c689a0d5@privateew99bf2>
References:  <ef10de9a0602280306p37644dbfibfc599c3f7c70c5@mail.gmail.com> <004601c63ce9$11176430$c689a0d5@privateew99bf2>

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On 2/28/06, a <a@zeos.net> wrote:
> Does links support Java-script?
>

As a matter of fact, yes. I compared this javascript test page* in
both links and firefox, both did everything correctly.

* http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/GO/EXPLORIT/java/IntroJavaScript.html

Also Links 2 can do color at the console and it can use SVGALIB or
X11, to display graphics, if you use the -g flag. Full mouse support
at the console and in graphical mode, downloads stuff in the
background etc.

On some of my servers I install X11 (I just use the default twm) with
a tabbed terminal emulator, Links with graphical support, and stuff
like pgadmin3. I find that I can work faster in X11 because I can have
open 16+ xterms, run links -g to look up docs, and copy & paste all on
one screen. running pgadmin3 is a plus too when your migrating from
7.3 =3D> 8.1. I'm sure alot of old hats cringe at the idea of running
X11 on a server, I don't like the the general Idea of it too, but for
me it's faster then Alt + Fn. I just had to do a complete rebuild
(backup, wipe, fresh install of 6.1-PRERELEASE, updated ports) of one
server and man was it a time saver, sitting at a black and white
console for 48 hours is no fun :-\

Anyways back to Links, the only downfall of Links is that it doesn't
do ssl (https), but I think the only one that does ssl is Lynx-ssl

http://links.twibright.com/features.php



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