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Re: lynx-dev Happy New Year [again]
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Patrick |
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Re: lynx-dev Happy New Year [again] |
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Sun, 7 Jan 2001 18:22:27 -0700 |
In "Re: lynx-dev Happy New Year [again]"
[03/Jan/2001 Wed 11:47:24]
Matt Ackeret wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Patrick wrote:
> >But I doubt that. It's already proved its usefulness for "web-ready"
> >cell phones and other handheld devices that can't do graphics.
>
> It has? Are you saying that *actual Lynx* runs on cell phones and other
> handheld devices? Can you give examples?
Almost. In this case Lynx is running on a server, NOT the handheld
device, which logs-in via telnet instead. Sorry, it was a little
while ago.
lynx-dev Tweaking LYNX
http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month052000/msg00290.html
That proved its usefulness on small-screen, alphanumeric displays,
but I shouldn't have said that about cell phones. I was basically
spouting-off -- in response to; "Happy New Year. (Looking more
and more like the last for Lynx.)" The sound of it bothered me,
so I made other noises of my own. Not sensible ones, but heartfelt.
Another correction: there HAS been some "earth-shattering" development
lately, among other housekeeping type patches. Built-in SSL support
is great, and not mentioning it in my rant -- in effect dismissing
it -- was a rude and ungrateful oversight. Sorry for that too.
> If you want tables, just use (try out) links
> (http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/) or w3m
> (http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/).
>
> Though I still fired up lynx to find those two bookmarks (lynx opened
> up my bookmark file faster), I use a combination of lynx and links (and
> iCab [www.icab.de] as a GUI browser at work, but graphics are turned off the
> vast vast vast majority of the time)..
>
> I'm not trying to dissuade anybody from improving lynx, but at least one
> of the majorly requested features is already in links.
Yes, but apparently Links is missing a lot of Lynx's best qualities.
Maybe some of these features can be added to Links sometime.
> >Hell, it might also be fun. Who knows what you might find in
> >there?
>
> Why don't you start documenting the code? That'd be a good step.
Why don't I learn to shut up? ;-) You're talking to someone
who's reasonably fluent in JavaScript and learning Inform. It'll
be a while before I'm any good with C source, probably longer
before I can contribute to Lynx.
Two questions from this:
Would anyone recommend reading Lynx source code, as an
aid in learning C, or would the sheer mass of it be too
confusing for a novice?
Are the sort of general comments I throw in -- eg. from
ordinary users who don't know much about programming --
any real contribution to the list or just noise?
Patrick
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- lynx-dev Happy New Year [again], Patrick, 2001/01/02
- Re: lynx-dev Happy New Year [again], Matt Ackeret, 2001/01/03
- Re: lynx-dev Happy New Year [again], Thomas Dickey, 2001/01/03
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx & tables, Matt Ackeret, 2001/01/03
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx & tables, David Woolley, 2001/01/04
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx & tables, Thomas Dickey, 2001/01/04
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx & tables, David Woolley, 2001/01/06
Re: lynx-dev Happy New Year [again],
Patrick <=
lynx-dev Re: Happy New Year [again], Michael Warner, 2001/01/08