Fwd: Kumar Appaiah: Browsing with Elinks and using hooks

[John Heim]

Yeah, i agree about ebrowse. Its really an amazing piece of software. I was 
about to say that I'm kind of surprised it hasn't caught on in the sighted 
community as a way to do web browsing on a device with a very small text 
display. But, of course, that's because its so hard to learn. I know there's 
a good reason for that. Its an editor and a browser. But i think the 
non-intuitive user interface has  diminished it's acceptance even in the 
blind community.

If you could say "edbrowse http://www.google.com" and from then on it would 
be just like being in firefox,I think it would be a lot more popular.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gaijin" <gaijin at clearwire.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Kumar Appaiah: Browsing with Elinks and using hooks


> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:01:42AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
>> Sorry for the follow-up but I forgot my other big issue with text
>> browsers.
>
> I use edbrowse, myself. While I *could* use it for online
> shopping/banking, I usually just go back to Firefox in Windows, and
> because SourceForge isn't updating it's version of edbrowse, Debian
> hasn't been keeping up with what's current.  It still works well with
> most websites, using the SeaMonkey java libraries to keep up with the
> Jones'es for java support.  It takes a little getting used to, but once
> you know a page layout, you can navigate as fast as if you were sighted,
> or you could simply script in a macro to handle the navigation for you.
> Edbrowse's Google macro is a fine example of accessing and cleaning up
> google's web pages to leave you with only the meat of the search results
> and nothing else.  Just type:
>
> <gg (search criteria)
>
> ...and edbrowse will fill in the search criteria as if you'd loaded the
> page already, then filter out the results from the page headers and
> footers.
>
> Michael
>
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