Fw: [links 2] Very great improvements for blind people !

[Janina Sajka]

If you build this, you might want to specify the --enable-javascript  option to ./configure. I am not sure I understand what other advantage using the chain has over the cat.

David Poehlman writes:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nath" <nath.ml at free.fr>
> To: <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Cc: <mikulas at artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 10:44 AM
> Subject: [links 2] Very great improvements for blind people !
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm very please to announce here that Mikulas Patoka, the links2
> developper, has made on my demand very great improvement to links2
> webbrowser to help us surfing the web more easily.
> 
> These new features are the following :
> 
> - cursor moves one character when you press arrows : left arrow -> one
>   character left, right arrow -> one character right, up arrow -> one
>   line up, down arrow -> one line down.
> - there are hotkeys 'a' and 't' to place cursor on bottom status line and
>   to top line with page count and title
> - when you turn off link numbering, links are prefixed with '~'  Input 
> fields are prefixed with '>'.
> - search does work --- instead of higlighting found text cursor is placed
>   on it
> - menus and dialog boxes are redone. They are over the whole screen and
>   have one item on a line. In dialog boxes that have only text and buttons,
>   you can move cursor on text with up and down arrows. Left and right arrows
>   move to the next button.
> 
> To activate these new possibilities, just go to the Configuration menu
> -> Terminal options and select the braille terminal item by pressing the
> space bar. Don't forget to save the options in order to have these
> features enabled the next time you will run links !
> 
> For the moment you will find the links 2.1pre15 source package on my web
> space at the following url :
> 
> http://nathx.free.fr/links/links-2.1pre15.tar.gz
> 
> don't hesitate to contact Mikulas to thanks him or send him your
> comments. His e-mail address is indicated in the Cc of this message.
> 
> Don't hesitate to fwd this announce to others people which would be
> interrested too.
> 
> Thanks again Mikulas !
> 
> 
> -- 
> Nath
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175