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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Thanks for this Ron and Steven. Good to know. Yes I am also very happy
> about links and links2 but it is in the BL archive for BL3 only with
> Xfree. Then there is that svgalib version of links2 that sindi always
> talks about that she port from dlinux or something but I just thought
> that I wouldn't have time to do this right now so I thought that
> arachne would be easier. Also I thought that Archean for linux was at
> the level of arachne for dos. I see what I will do but thank for the
> helpfully information.

The version from delilinux is 2.1pre14, 3.5GB executable and requires 
glibc and a lot of other libraries so that it can be used without X. 
Steven compiled a 3.0GB 2.1pre15 (Apr 28 2004) that does require the BL3 X 
but not much else (and has an updated Upper Sorbian translation and two 
other pages of minor improvements including security bugs and crashes).

If you have BL3 working with X, you are better off with this version.  I 
use the delilinux version in BL2 and on one laptop where Xvesa would not 
work (I eventually got the SVGA X working by changing the modelines).

The current version is 2.1pre32.  40 pages (25 lines) of bug fixes and 
improvements.  Since Nov 2004, supports mms://urls (streaming audio).  I 
don't know if lynx supports them.  I have been accessing them directly 
with mplayer. You can block ad images. (Jan 2005).  javascript:  set form 
action and fixed a javascript crash.  Allow image map element without href 
and only with javascript. <hr> <sub> <sup> (this is all by pre18). pre19 - 
keyboard handlers in javascript xhtml;  Allow user and password in http 
url -- http://user:password@host/ Nov 2005 Allowed download of files 
larger than 2G.  Regular expressions for javascript.  Fix tokenizers of 
javascript.  Fixed javascript memory leak on ebay.  Support 4th and 6th 
mouse button on svgalib (????). Implemented porn mode (bare image 
autoscaling aka fullscreen).  Optional scrollbars in frames.  Use 8-bit 
gamma correction on machines with slow FPU or FPU emulation.  Lots of 
braille terminal support.  Shift-Q exits without question.  Fixed 
javascript crash.  Removed SDL support until it is fixed.  View &nbsp; as 
space when searching.  Support for zlib, gzipa nd bzip2 files.  BUT:  Apr 
16 2007.  Javascript was removed due to bugginess. (It was not removed yet 
in pre28)  Martin Pergel doesn't have time to develop it and code is so 
messy that no one else can understand it. In pre29 it was not removed but 
it won't be maintained.

Apr 28 2004 pre15 (current BL3 version)
Oct 27 2007 pre31
Dec 13 2007 pre32

Steven, is it worth compiling pre32 for BL3?  Is there any simple and 
nondestructive way to run something compiled for BL3 X in BL2?

Links2 apparently will work in framebuffer mode (no need for svgalib, but 
you still need all those other libraries for the non-X version).  You need 
a framebuffer kernel or modules (the BL3 big kernel should work, with 
vesafb, on most VESA 2.0 or higher cards such as aty, riva, matrox).

Most javascript is not supported by links2.  Try Opera 9.

Sindi

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> /Mikkel