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Posted: 2004-04-23 11:00pm
It's old, text based and blazing fast. Espically over my broadband connection 
. It's lynx
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Posted: 2004-04-23 11:22pm
Hmm, Old and Text-Based. That narrows down the choices to, oh, I dunno, LYNX!
Posted: 2004-04-23 11:36pm
I bet the machine code one works faster.
I can't imagine rendering PNGs in noughts and ones.
I can't imagine rendering PNGs in noughts and ones.
Posted: 2004-04-23 11:51pm
Lynks sucks. Links or Elinks is superior (supports tables, colors, and frames).
Posted: 2004-04-23 11:58pm
Bah, if i want fancy stuff like colors or the ability to use a mouse i'll just use firefox. Sometimes it's just fun to browse pages using nutin but txt.
Posted: 2004-04-24 12:01am
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Posted: 2004-04-24 12:03am
But it IS text-only... and normally I don't have color enabled anyway, since it defaults to B&W in an aterm for some reason.
Posted: 2004-04-24 12:04am
As for GUI browsers, Dillo is ridiculously fast. Too bad it's GTK 1.2, and no CSS support, which is unacceptable for a graphical browser.
Posted: 2004-04-24 12:32am
Pff. Telnet is the fastest browser ;P
Posted: 2004-04-24 01:11am
Repeat after me: Telnet is not a browser.Exonerate wrote:Pff. Telnet is the fastest browser ;P
Posted: 2004-04-24 01:17am
Well one could use HTTP commands such as GET to retrieve HTML pages by telnetting to port 80
Posted: 2004-04-24 01:19am
I hope you like looking at source code...Pu-239 wrote:Well one could use HTTP commands such as GET to retrieve HTML pages via telnet
Posted: 2004-04-24 01:43am
Ah, but GNU screen lets you dump the console text into a file, from which you can strip HTTP headers and feed to links, or you can pipe to html2text.
telnet bbs.stardestroyer.net 80 |tee temp
[Type GET http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/]
[Telnet session closes]
cat temp|sed '1,3d'|html2text
And you get:
Of course, links don't work, then again, grep through the source or open the html file you retrieved with a proper browser.
telnet bbs.stardestroyer.net 80 |tee temp
[Type GET http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/]
[Telnet session closes]
cat temp|sed '1,3d'|html2text
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Posted: 2004-04-24 11:49am
Of course, the typing for telnet would be significantly slower than using a text-based browser (not to mention the overhead from executing multiple processes), defeating the claim that "Telnet is the fastest."
Posted: 2004-04-24 12:17pm
Also, quite a few sites use transfer compression with gzip. This is easy with a decent web browser, but it's quite a hassle with telnet, making it a lot slower for some large static pages.Mad wrote:Of course, the typing for telnet would be significantly slower than using a text-based browser (not to mention the overhead from executing multiple processes), defeating the claim that "Telnet is the fastest."
Posted: 2004-04-25 12:00pm
Dillo is stupid fast and very small .. unfortunately, it has no CSS support, as Pu noted. Very annoying.