[ale] How Do I Join? (text browser digression)

[Warren Myers]

must say I prefer `elinks` to `lynx` personally :)

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Mike Harrison <meuon at geeklabs.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Sam Rakowski wrote:
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> > Wow, I am totally amazed.  Are you seriously telling me that people use
> text
> > web browsers in this Web-2.0-world!  Can you all share with me the
> > advantages of text web browsing?  I have got to try it!  Now THAT's
> > adventurous!
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> Heck, every real web interface I do gets tested in text mode.
> It doesn't have to be pretty, it has to work and be 'ADA' compliant
> for a screen reader.
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> The funniest one was I did some work for the FAA
> that had to meet those requirements and was tested
> by a third party, They admitted that no-one would
> ever use it in that mode, but it had to be compliant.
> The little web job cost them approx $5k, it cost
> them another $3k to have it tested.
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> Our tax dollars at work.
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> Text browser (favorite being lynx) advantages:
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> -FAST-.
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> Works when shelled into a remote machine.
> I have used links/elinks/lynx a lot to surf for and download
> code/data/?? into a remote machine when I could not just wget the URL.
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> works well with screen readers for the blind, or people
> that just like to have cnn.com read to them.
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> bypasses JavaScript/Flash/ActiveX/Silverlight/ASP/Java/...
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> works well with 'simple auth',
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> works great for reading HTML based documentation when shelled in
> to a remote machine..
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> It drives GUI users insane!
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