Links (Was: Re: Actiontech router?)

[Luke Davis]

Re the chain:

I almost always use links from a terminal.  It looks the same from the
terminal and console.  I will admit, that the way it handles messages and
so on (with boxes appearing in the center of the screen), is annoying.
However, if your screen reader can map popup boxes, or inverse video
areas, it should be able to deal.
As for the way it handles frames, by showing them actually as frames, can
be good or bad, depending upon the circumstances.  In any case, you can
turn that feature off (in which case it will work like the cat), or set a
particular frame to full screen (anyone know how to get back from that, by
the way?).
Also, the table support can some times be useful.

Luke


On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Andrew Hodgson wrote:

> Luke Davis in
> <Pine.BSF.4.56.0307051143350.14454 at server1.shellworld.net>:
>
> >Um, I know there are Sisco and some other huge, university class routers,
> >which may cost thousands of dollars, but for the majority of cases which
> >this software is designed to cover, the corresponding router would cost
> >from one hundred, to maybe four hundred, dollars, if that.
>
> Interestingly Smoothwall does more than the Cisco routers do anyway -
> at least the standard models.  Furthermore it is very modular.  Other
> systems include E-smith <www.e-smith.org>, and ClarkConnect
> <www.clarkconnect.org>
>
> Regarding links (the chain), I fell into the speech trap, I don't tend
> to use this because the way in which I use Linux through a terminal
> means that it is slightly difficult to get anything out of it, as it
> uses a more GUI based approach with tiling etc.  I have seen the JS
> working with Links very simply, but doubt whether it would cope with
> some of the more graphical JS elements so well, on the basis of what I
> have seen it do so far (my own opinion).  If anyone can contradict
> this with a site, please let me know and I will test it.
>
> Andrew.
>