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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Greg Mayman wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 16:09:07 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > I prefer a text-only browser most of the time so I use lynx itself, and
> > Opera only if I need javascript.  I also have lynx (in linux) set to use
> > graphical links as a downloader (plugin) if I really need embedded
> > images or rudimentary javascript.
>
> I prefer a text-only browser too, so I run Arachne with
> auto-download of images turned off.
>
> But on some sites, I get a lot of image blocks all over the
> screen, similar to the [IMG] links that we get with lynx,
> although Arachne will display any alternate text that is behind
> the image.
>
> If you have ever struck this with lynx you will know how hard it
> is to work out what links do which.
>
> With Arachne, I can hit the Insert key which tells it to download
> all images (slow), or I can right-click on one of the image
> blocks and download just that one (much quicker). Usually I can
> guess which are the links I want by their relative positions on
> the screen.

For Opera it is Shift-G, which they don't put on the menu in recent 
versions.  Or right click and 'reload' (load, in older versions).
Links and lynx will display individual images, or set up lynx with links2 
-g (graphical) to reload the page with embedded images.

Links2 in graphical mode can be set to display all or no images and I 
think to also load one image at a time.  It does some javascript.

> The other thing I love about Arachne is that it is an integrated
> browser and mail handler.
So is Opera.  So is lynx or links, if you use webmail.

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