At Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:50:18 +0300, Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>
wrote:
Subject: Re: Adding the "links" text mode web browser to the base system
>
> This is just to mention, that w3m is still more useful than links
I find w3m to be really horrid to use, worse than lynx. :-)
The netbsd.org web page looks horrible in them all, even "links -g".
If we want a text-based HTML browser it should be one that's at least
able to render modern, standard, HTML properly.
FYI, static-linked NetBSD/i386 binaries are proof that not even
character-based WWW/HTML interfaces are cheap or small or elegant:
text data bss dec hex filename
1722957 285044 152188 2160189 20f63d links
3022305 1810772 944540 5777617 5828d1 links-gui
1491313 99384 125864 1716561 1a3151 w3m
2126609 158484 409564 2694657 291e01 lynx
Texinfo documents are effectively hyper-link capable. Why not convert
the HTML documents we have into texinfo format so we can use the already
built-in support for them?
text data bss dec hex filename
340193 14580 26216 380989 5d03d /usr/bin/info
--
Greg A. Woods
Planix, Inc.
<woods%planix.com@localhost> +1 416 218 0099 http://www.planix.com/
Attachment:
pgpBVfzIvXVHD.pgp
Description: PGP signature