From:	firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: A DJ Web Browser
Date:	28 Sep 1997 05:00:08 GMT
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kifox <kifox AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> In article <342D48AB DOT 73F662D1 AT lausd DOT k12 DOT ca DOT us>, csantill AT lausd DOT k12 DOT ca DOT us 
> says...
> >
> >from: csantill AT lausd DOT k12 DOT ca DOT us
> >
> >I meant a DOS graphical browser web browser which dials
> >PPP, SLIP, TCP/IP and all that other good serial com
> >stuff.  I've used used Lynx (the UNIX version thru my
> >ISP's BBS) and I want something more powerful.  It's
> >good when you know the pages that you'll be viewing
> >won't have any frames or tables or important graphics
> >because its real easy to get when the image is the
> >link to the page you want but screen looks like this:
> >
> >[ LINK ] [ LINK ] [ LINK ]

> Actually you can view information in frames using lynx. You'll see 
> something like FRAME:[ LINK ] on the screen if I remember right.

What you see is:

FRAME: foo

where 'foo' is the 'name' of the frame given in the HTML source, not the URL
or any symbol such as [LINK]. [LINK] is seen less and less frequently in
Lynx as it has the ability to recognize and create meaningful tags for more
and more HTML constructs. Personally, I am hard-pressed to see [LINK] in an
average day of browsing with Lynx v2.7.1. 

Also, Lynx can 'view' graphics and sounds if you have your MIME types setup 
correctly. After they are, hit * in Lynx and all the [INLINE] things will
automagically transform into links you can click on and see the pictures.

Granted, this is pretty useless for many of the stupid, insignificant images
people throw on their web pages these days, but who really wants to look at
those? When you need\want to see a graphic, you can.

I only have two complaints about Lynx: tables and Java. Lynx-formatted tables
look simply horrendous and there is no support for Java (yet? It would be
too cool to see a version of Lynx supporting Java... and have it ported to
DJGPP!)

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