Re: [dev] Text-only browser that sucks less?

From: Manolo Martínez <manolo_AT_austrohungaro.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 02:01:31 +0200

On 06/29/14 at 07:56pm, Nick wrote:
> Quoth Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe:
> > Beyond rendering pages, the biggest
> > challenge seems to me to lie in coming up with a more intelligent
> > method of selecting links than the usual crufty vi/emacs/Lynx-style
> > interfaces.
>
> I always liked the way elinks (I think) did it, with a numbers mode
> where you type the number of the link you want to go to.

I'd say that qualifies as vi-style. Authority argument: it's the style vimperator
uses. I quite like it, both in elinks and vimperator, but yes, it'd
be cool if some talented UI designer came up with something better.

M

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