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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 10:38:35PM -0700, Justin Gombos wrote:
> 
> Text browsers aren't practical for any kind of general purpose web
> browsing because so many sites are not designed for them.  They're
> useful for admins who are in a mid-installation pinch because they
> don't have graphics working yet, but that seems to be the extent of
> it.

We live on different planets, then. I can't live without text-mode browsers. 
It's 
true that some sites really can't be viewed with text-mode browsers, and 
other sites 
render poorly. But many sites can be browsed, either in full or in part, with 
text-mode browsers. The very first thing I do with any Linux I install is get 
either 
elinks/links or lynx (w3m works, too) up and running if it's not already 
there. 
These are always my browser of choice and, only if they fail or do poorly at 
rendering some site, or if I determine there is some graphic there I need to 
see, do 
I fire up a full graphical browser. Fully 75% of graphics on the web are at 
best 
useless frills and at worst just visual garbage or spam, being absolutely 
optional 
to the content of the page. Text-mode browsers give us a way dispensing with 
alot of 
that junk. What isn't practical for you or is allegedly only useful in a 
tight spot 
for a limited segment of computer gurus is an indispensible browsing tool 
that is 
used daily for some of us.

James