I used to use Lynx a lot when I had dial up--for its speed which came mostly from the fact that it didn't download images and flash crap etc. Then I discovered Opera that allowed me to defer image download until I chose to download them--individually or on-mass, and I didn't use Lynx much after that.

These days, now I have broadband, speed is less of an issue. And with css and javascript being de rigour, it would be pretty much useless anyway for online browsing. For local html, download speed was never an issue, but the restrictions of fix-width only fonts, no css or javascript is. I really cannot see the benefits of the intermediate stage. My browser is always there, and I can quickly flip between several ModPods and my editor and one or more command lines quickly and easily.

Trying to do everything through a single UI makes no sense to me. Like trying to control one of the modern breed of photo-realistic car or plane sims through a keyboard: possible, but crappy. Can you imagine trying to drive your real car by pounding on the uparrow to go faster or downarrow to hit the brakes?

For all it's limitations, html is far superior--for users--to any of the other text viewers, simply because its ubiquity, and open competition, has meant browsers have developed rapidly to improve the UI.

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In reply to Re^5: Better perldoc on Windows by BrowserUk
in thread Better perldoc on Windows by roho

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