- From: Phillip Pi <philpi@apu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 09:18:07 -0800 (PST)
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
For those with UNIX, do people use Links? http://links.sourceforge.net I believe it is a better text Web browser than Lynx. However, I still test Web sites with both Lynx and Links :). -- "When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all." --E.O. Wilson, 1992 -- /\___/\ Phillip Pi (Ant) / /\ /\ \ E-Mail: philpi@earthlink.net or philpi@apu.edu | |. .| | \ _ / The Ant Farm: http://antfarm.home.dhs.org ( ) ICQ UIN: 2223658. Resume: http://ptp-resume.home.dhs.org > > > > Of course, you need to have JavaScript enabled to get this code working :-) > > > > // but you can't do any on-page browser detection without > > >JavaScript, anyway. > > >But Javascript is not normally on in Lynx. (in fact I don't know how to > > > > Lynx doesn't do JavaScript. This should be considered a serious shortcoming > > in Lynx, but instead it seems to be viewed as a virtue. I'd really like > > to see text browser that did JavaScript and CSS. > > in some ways it is a virtue > > > See, we need to assume some level of basic support. Okay, so some > > browsers won't measure up to it -- but some browsers (such as Lynx) > > have not been reprogrammed in 5 years. More recent browsers do > > ??????? lynx version 2.8.3 was released on 17 July 2001!!! it is > maintained actively by the Univ of Kansas.
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