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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT ausreg.com>]

Hi Folks,

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:32:21 -0600
James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net> wrote:

> 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.

   I also use a mixture of text and graphical browsers, depending on the 
site(s) I am accessing, and what I am tryong to do at the time.  There are 
some sites that are so graphic-intense that they take so long to fully load, 
and when you are just searching for hyperlinks, then a text browser is a 
no-brainer.

   This applies equally for DOS (Arachne with/without graphics vs Lynx) and 
Linux (Links2ssl vs Phoenix vs Netscape vs Opera vs Links-text vs Dillo).

   I guess it depends on what you are used to, and what you want to do. Or, 
perhaps, what you are willing to learn - it took me a while to get used to 
Lynx but it was worth the effort.

Regards,
        Ron

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Ron Clarke 
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