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Geuss What Browser I'm Playing around with.

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It's old, text based and blazing fast. Espically over my broadband connection :). It's lynx
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Hmm, Old and Text-Based. That narrows down the choices to, oh, I dunno, LYNX!
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I bet the machine code one works faster.

I can't imagine rendering PNGs in noughts and ones.
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Lynks sucks. Links or Elinks is superior (supports tables, colors, and frames).

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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. :)
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Post by Pu-239 »

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.

ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer


George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
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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.

ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer


George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
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Post by Exonerate »

Pff. Telnet is the fastest browser ;P

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Exonerate wrote:Pff. Telnet is the fastest browser ;P
Repeat after me: Telnet is not a browser.
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Well one could use HTTP commands such as GET to retrieve HTML pages by telnetting to port 80
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Pu-239 wrote:Well one could use HTTP commands such as GET to retrieve HTML pages via telnet
I hope you like looking at source code...
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Post by Pu-239 »

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

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Of course, links don't work, then again, grep through the source or open the html file you retrieved with a proper browser.

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Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer


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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."
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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."
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.
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Post by phongn »

Dillo is stupid fast and very small .. unfortunately, it has no CSS support, as Pu noted. Very annoying.
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