Lynx web browser
I just installed it, and it’s quite interesting reading Typophile on it. There’s one issue though, I can’t login or post via Lynx, which is really too bad.
Anyone else use Lynx? I think it’s nice because all of the superfluous images that the web throws at you are gone. Instead, what is left is nice, clean text for reading.
Good stuff.
27.Feb.2008 1.33pm
Be careful Dan, you’ll turn into a Linux nerd ;b
27.Feb.2008 1.35pm
I know, I know...
27.Feb.2008 1.35pm
I often use Lynx in dump mode to get some clean input. For instance, on my Linux server, if I type
lynx -dump "http://www.antonchehov.ru/book/149/" > dama.txt
I get a rather clean unicode text file containing Chekhov’s Дама с собачкой in Russian.
Michel
27.Feb.2008 1.40pm
Hey, see there James, command line stuff can be fun AND profitable!
@Michel Boyer
So Lynx can be piped with standard in/output? That’s super cool.
27.Feb.2008 1.53pm
> So Lynx can be piped with standard in/output?
Yes, I once used to pipe lynx outputs into sed and awk to extract useful info and generate .tex files.
27.Feb.2008 3.25pm
I’ve been using Lynx essentially every day for the last dozen years. Typophile has a lot of unnecessary examples of standards noncompliance, and the login screen is one of them. It appears to require JavaScript or something, which is quite unnecessary. Also, the content area is entirely inside a Flash movie, also quite unnecessary.
It borders on impossible to have a conversation about Web standards on this site without either being ignored or being told that it works fine in IE6, so I’ve long since given up.
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Joe Clark
http://joeclark.org/
27.Feb.2008 3.42pm
I use lynx to approximate what a crawler might see on a page I’ve designed, and just to feel leet and old-school. :)
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27.Feb.2008 4.05pm
@Joe Clark
So the problem isn’t just a configuration thing on my end, which is good, because that means things are working properly. But it’s not a configuration problem on my end, which is bad, meaning I can’t fix it myself.