Talk:Browser

[src http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-October/024090.html]

 telnet (or nc, or w3c, wget, or curl): If you can speak http and read html, you can talk directly to the server, if you really want to.

www: If you're stuck with a console without curses/ANSI support--or it's 1989--this is pretty spiffy; otherwise, stay away.

lynx: The first decent text browser; you want the ssl-patched version. But you probably want elinks instead.

links: Essentally lynx plus frames, tables, image maps, ssl, cache management, background downloading, etc. You want 2.1, not 0.98. Or, better, elinks.

elinks: Links enhanced with even more cool features.

links -g: Adds inline images to links. Works in SVGAlib as well as X.

wb0: A graphical browser for SVGAlib, which sometimes works better than links -g, although it's not nearly as complete.

netrik: The only real alternative to the links family for text browsing; not as good (especially since it doesn't quite get cons25 or xterm), but if elinks won't work with some site, try netrik.

w3m: This is what web browsing would have been like on an Apple ][ or C=64. It does look nice, but it's low on features and has a weird interface.

w3m-img: This is w3m with inline image support.

emacs-w3m: If you believe that the editor is the operating system, and never leave emacs, you can run w3m from inside emacs.

w3: If you really love emacs, wouldn't you rather use a web browser built in emacs-lisp?

retawq: Quite cool in some ways, but not complete, not exactly designed for novices, and not up-to-date on features. Oh, and dark blue on black can be a bit hard to read. 