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On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Giuseppe wrote:
>
> > Elinks connects with the sites I enter but the screen is empty. I see it
> > connects: it shows the speed and progress of connection. It seems to be
> > faster than Lynx and Links2 but it shows nothing. No error message and no
> > complains.
>
> Same results here. Doesn't matter whether the site is remote (e.g.,
> google) or local (e.g., hotlist.html). Like it's missing fonts, or fonts
> are transparent or something. Same in console as in terminal. Light on
> dark or dark on light terminal makes no difference--still blank pages.
> Anyway, nice try. I can see that even tabs work.

Odd.  I only tested it while chrooted from BL2 to BL3.  I wonder what is 
missing.  I wish someone better at compiling would tackle elinks (with 
javascript) and get something that works for everyone.

Giuseppe and James, can you test it also in BL2?

Works fine for me in BL2 or chrooted to BL3 in a console in color or 
in an rxvt (does not display colors there, probably because I compiled it 
small - it can be compiled to show 256 colors).

www.grex.org displays for me and downloads and displays www.umich.edu in 6 
seconds.  Steven's BL3 links2 (nongraphical) with or without ssl downloads 
it in 4 seconds.  (On my fast computer).

In BL3 rxvt the rectangle displayed when I type 'g' for 'goto' is made up 
of g and backwards s rather than a thin single line (in BL2).  Missing 
font?  In a console it is a thin double line.

elinks lets you load it with URL specified.
elinks www.umich.edu
Or if you don't specify, it starts you with a Goto screen.
You cannot just type in part of the URL as you can with lynx.

There is a wrap text W.

I don't see a way to number links.  So it probably should be compiled with 
gpm support next time.  Nor are links underlined.  At some sites (mine for 
instance) links are blue and other text white.

Using zgv on a 200K image under elinks (at a website) appears to crash it
(I get a black screen after the image downloads).  Still buggy.
Links1 and 2 don't do this (with 512MB RAM).

In Setup Terminal Options 'Transparency' is selected by default - would it 
help to turn it off if you get invisible pages?  Or turn off Color?

I turned on Block Cursor, and Underline (no obvious effect)

> James