links: text only browser with table support!

it may be old news to you, but it was new to me =)

I surf sites that are 99% text most of the time, but more and more they all use tables for formatting and so lynx has been choking on them. enter links. I found it today and it rocks thus far. it also supports cookies well it seems. perfecto. AFAICT, it's the only one that does. Are there others? if so, speak up! if not enjoy it =)


"A man's maturity -- consists in having found again the

seriousness one had as a child, at play."   --Nietzsche
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Re: links: text only browser with table support! by alfie (Pilgrim) on Apr 03, 2001 at 11:44 UTC
I found w3m more useful (and, I found it earlier than links ;). It is quite fast, and as aditional feature to links: It can handle user authentication - which links can't and is a feature I really need. Also I couldn't find a way to make links dump a frameset, which is also possible with w3m. -- Alfie	[reply]
(jptxs) Re: links: text only browser with table support! w3m IS better! by jptxs (Curate) on Apr 04, 2001 at 05:20 UTC
alfie is TOTALLY right!!! w3m rules! It's quite superior, and, the best part, over which I almost fell over, it launches me into vi when i come to edit this text box! something i didn't not know until I came here to write a good review which has turned into an absolute rave!!! =) `"A man's maturity -- consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play." --Nietzsche` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: (jptxs) Re: links: text only browser with table support! w3m IS better! by alfie (Pilgrim) on Apr 04, 2001 at 11:41 UTC
Thanks for the nice response :-) It's funny though that w3m was originally done as a replacement for less - as a pager. To those win32 users out there - there are also binaries for that os (you need cygwin IIRC). And thanks for the URL you found, jptxs, I haven't known about that one. -- Alfie	[reply]
Re: links: text only browser with table support! by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 04, 2001 at 18:18 UTC
w3-mode inside GNU Emacs can handle tables, authentication, and even style sheets, all within a text-mode Emacs session. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]