Elinks: Shame I Didn't Start Much Sooner

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Mon Jul 18 12:16:52 EDT 2005


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What version of elinks are you using these days? I installed their
stable version which I found to be as follows:

ELinks 0.10.5 (built on Jul 15 2005 23:02:49)

Features:
Standard, IPv6, gzip, bzip2, No mouse, Cascading Style Sheets, Protocol (File, FTP, Gopher, HTTP, SMB, URI rewrite, User protocols), 
SSL (OpenSSL), MIME (Option system, Mailcap, Mimetypes files), LED indicators, 
Bookmarks, Cookies, ECMAScript, Form History, Global History, Scripting (Perl)

On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:36:03AM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I've dumped the cat, but still have the chain (links2).  The javascript
> support in elinks isn't complete yet, so there are still times when
> links2 is needed.
> 
> Hope this helps.
>           Kenny
> 	  
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:41:32PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I mean just that.  I installed elinks last night including the available
> > javascript support and this thing has been great!  I think I'm gonna
> > dump the cat and the chain and use this one exclusively.  I'm just
> > curious from other users out there, Are there any particular settings
> > one ot to do to get the most out of it? I've already numbered links and
> > I leave frames and table rendoring turned on.  At this point I have
> > image links not be generated as links.  There's several options
> > concerning image rendoring; I liked the ability to completely hide the
> > [img] items on the screen in lynx but it appears that elinks shows them
> > no matter what.  In general, I like the accurate way tables are shown
> > but I do notice some occasional wrapping of some table cells so I might
> > have to decolumnize tables but I generally like the two dimensional view
> > when possible.
> > 
> > So thanks to Kenny for mentioning elinks a while back and incouraging me
> > to go for it.:)  If anyone else is wondering, the installation docs
> > outline exactly what to do in cluding the Spider Monkey JS support and
> > it worked perfectly for me.  I just ran into one web page that causes it
> > to crash but that's a local web based app here on my machine
> > (phpPgAdmin) so will persue that a bit later.  But otherwise, I've
> > gotten into several javascripted websites and I could use them with
> > flying colors!
> > 
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