I'm looking for a text-only browser that's at least as easy to use as
WannaBe. I love using WannaBe, but it's practically the only Classic app
I still use and I'd like to go OSX-only.

foo <foo[at]bar.com> aszonygya:
:Lynx. Recently ported to OS X. Google both and I'm sure you'll find
:it.

Recently? I compiled the standard unix distribution w/o any problem as soon
as I got my OSX [a year ago]. There was nothing to port except perhaps minor
adjustments. I think I may have just done a "configure; make" job. I am not
sure. Best regards, Paul

foo <foo[at]bar.com> wrote in message news:<2jmhgv0pjvueg1c51a3nis57uj5mllk8at[at]4ax.com>...
> On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 02:08:09 GMT, gwbushnospam[at]whitehouse.gov (Ben
> Loughran) wrote:
>
> >I'm looking for a text-only browser that's at least as easy to use as
> >WannaBe. I love using WannaBe, but it's practically the only Classic app
> >I still use and I'd like to go OSX-only.
>
> Lynx. Recently ported to OS X. Google both and I'm sure you'll find
> it.

Do yourself one better and grab links (http://links.sourceforge.net/).
Builds like a charm on OS X. I stopped using lynx for links solely
for the way links renders tables (much better than my experience with
lynx), but there's apparently quite a bit more in there.

Other than that, it's very lynx-esque, thus the name, natch.

RB

Ruffin Bailey <kaboom[at]atari.net> wrote:
>foo <foo[at]bar.com> wrote in message
>> gwbushnospam[at]whitehouse.gov (Ben Loughran) wrote:
>> >I'm looking for a text-only browser that's at least as easy to use as
>> >WannaBe. I love using WannaBe, but it's practically the only Classic app
>> >I still use and I'd like to go OSX-only.
>>
>> Lynx. Recently ported to OS X. Google both and I'm sure you'll find
>> it.
>
>Do yourself one better and grab links (http://links.sourceforge.net/).
> Builds like a charm on OS X. I stopped using lynx for links solely
>for the way links renders tables (much better than my experience with
>lynx), but there's apparently quite a bit more in there.

Another text-mode browser that I like is w3m, which is fairly different
from both lynx and links. It has pretty good table support and a more
GUI-like rendering intent (horizontal scrolling instead of trying to
cram the web page to fit 80 columns).

However NONE of these really satisfies the original poster's request.
WannaBe is a full-fledged Mac app complete with menus and point-and-click
interface; it just ignores all images/media/font/etc. tags, for fast and
lightweight loading. lynx/links/w3m actually have fuller HTML support,
(most obviously, WannaBe also ignores forms) but I wouldn't call any
of them "at least as easy to use".

-- Erick

Ben Loughran <gwbushnospam[at]whitehouse.gov> wrote:

> I'm looking for a text-only browser that's at least as easy to use as
> WannaBe. I love using WannaBe, but it's practically the only Classic app
> I still use and I'd like to go OSX-only.

I have no perfect solution but am also in search of a
"minimal-throughput" browser, to be used on holidays with a GPRS
connexion. Up to now I considered, out of the "ordinary browsers", the
ones I could require not to load images, etc. Apparently Icab looks
promising: I can definitely ban at least all images, iframes...
I suggest you have a look at it. And I'll follow this discussion with
great interest :-)

Herve

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Frédérique's initial is missing in front of the above address
l'initiale de Frédérique manque devant l'adresse email ci-dessus

In article <1fxqylc.1pxpupo1ts1l5oN%h.sainct[at]laposte.net>,
h.sainct[at]laposte.net (Frédérique & HervéSainct) wrote:

> Ben Loughran <gwbushnospam[at]whitehouse.gov> wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a text-only browser that's at least as easy to use as
> > WannaBe. I love using WannaBe, but it's practically the only Classic app
> > I still use and I'd like to go OSX-only.
>
> I have no perfect solution but am also in search of a
> "minimal-throughput" browser, to be used on holidays with a GPRS
> connexion. Up to now I considered, out of the "ordinary browsers", the
> ones I could require not to load images, etc. Apparently Icab looks
> promising: I can definitely ban at least all images, iframes...
> I suggest you have a look at it. And I'll follow this discussion with
> great interest :-)
>
> Herve

There's always Lynx, which runs in a command-line shell.

--
Timberwoof <me at timberwoof dot com>
http://www.timberwoof.com

In article <timberwoof-A0CE9A.13465407072003[at]typhoon.sonic.net>,
Timberwoof <timberwoof[at]stimpberawoofm.com> wrote:
< In article <1fxqylc.1pxpupo1ts1l5oN%h.sainct[at]laposte.net>,
< h.sainct[at]laposte.net (Frédérique & HervéSainct) wrote:
<
< > Ben Loughran <gwbushnospam[at]whitehouse.gov> wrote:
< >
< > > I'm looking for a text-only browser that's at least as easy to use as
<
< There's always Lynx, which runs in a command-line shell.

And Links.

Mark Geary


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