Re: Adding the "links" text mode web browser to the base system

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

"Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.ca@localhost> writes:

> At Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:50:18 +0300, Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost> 
> wrote:
> Subject: Re: Adding the "links" text mode web browser to the base system
>> 
>> This is just to mention, that w3m is still more useful than links
>
> I find w3m to be really horrid to use, worse than lynx.  :-)

That's because you use Latin. I remember the time, when you had to pick
up a specific version of lynx that comes with international support.

> If we want a text-based HTML browser it should be one that's at least
> able to render modern, standard, HTML properly.
>
> FYI, static-linked NetBSD/i386 binaries are proof that not even
> character-based WWW/HTML interfaces are cheap or small or elegant:
>
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 1722957  285044  152188 2160189  20f63d links
> 3022305 1810772  944540 5777617  5828d1 links-gui
> 1491313   99384  125864 1716561  1a3151 w3m
> 2126609  158484  409564 2694657  291e01 lynx
>
> Texinfo documents are effectively hyper-link capable.  Why not convert
> the HTML documents we have into texinfo format so we can use the already
> built-in support for them?
>
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  340193   14580   26216  380989   5d03d /usr/bin/info

This is good idea, except that (as I understand it) intention was to
provide tools to read BIND and NTP documentation which comes in HTML
originally.


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