Small Web Browser?

Gerald Combs gerald at ethereal.com
Sun Nov 23 21:28:40 CST 2003


On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> On Sunday 23 November 2003 01:03 pm, Gerald Combs wrote:
> 
> > Links (version 2) has a graphics mode.  You can invoke it with "-device x"
> > from X.  It also supports JavaScript:
> 
> >   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links/features.html
> 
> Ok, you're missing the point here:  What if you DON'T have or want XWindows?

And you didn't read the feature page above, or you skipped bullet item #2.
It says:

  "Links runs in graphics mode (mouse required) on X Window System (UN*X,
   Cygwin), SVGAlib, Linux Framebuffer, OS/2 PMShell, AtheOS GUI"

bam:/home/gerald> links -help
links [options] URL
Options are:

 -g
  Run in graphics mode.

 -no-g
  Run in text mode (overrides previous -g).

 -driver <driver name>
  Graphics driver to use. Drivers are: x, svgalib, fb, directfb, pmshell, atheos.
  Available drivers depend on your operating system and available libraries.

 -mode <graphics mode>
  Graphics mode. For SVGALIB it is in format COLUMNSxROWSxCOLORS --
  for example 640x480x256, 800x600x64k, 1024x768x16M32

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