Fantasy: Integrate inline image-viewing into ELinks -- just like w3m-img (screenshot)? elinks has rudimentary javascript support -- could be improved with time. If only I could use Hotmail with elinks. p.s. For one and all: "I, for one, welcome our new text console overlords." p.p.s. Yes, I know it is everyone's fantasy, so I can't take credit for it.
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If only I could use Hotmail with elinks.
FWIW, gmail and Yahoo work fine with elinks. The only "problem" is Yahoo wants javascript and gmail thinks you need to upgrade your browser. Both let users choose their "old" interfaces which work fine for elinks (including with https for gmail).I voted to take firefox out of the base, but now am having second thoughts...
It's easy enough to burn a base DSL CD, and then use it to create a MYDSL CD with whatever browser of choice. However, that may (or may not) be user-friendly or environmentally friendly (more burned CD's? if it matters...).
Could a base include the latest version of Firefox (that still fits within 50MB and works well with the older computers, thus having a decent web browser built-in) AS A MYDSL extension, that could be removed by users if they do want to create a custom MYDSL CD?
If the option above were available, I'd vote for that. Otherwise, if it's overall better for newbies and others, I think I would prefer change my vote to updating to ff2gtk1, or whatever other version of FF that fits in 50MB.
Cheers and best regards.lucky13: Thanks for the tip! (I've used the "old" interface in gmail previously.) Modern webmail tends to have a lot of... urm... "graphical javascript voodoo menus". I wonder if those could be properly presented in a text-based interface using inline image-viewing. My (very uneducated) guess: "so complicated that it becomes impossible".s_i: you do know that links has image viewing, in framebuffer console too?Next Page...
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