Links (browser)
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| Maintainer | Mikuláš Patočka |
| developer | Twibright Labs |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| Current version | 2.20.2 (September 18, 2019) |
| operating system | Unix , BSD , Linux , OS / 2 , BeOS |
| programming language | C. |
| category | Web browser |
| License | GPL |
| German speaking | Yes |
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On the left is a free text-based web browser (under the GPL ) for various Unix operating systems, Linux , OS / 2 and Windows .
overview
The Czech programmer Mikuláš Patočka published the first version of the Links web browser in 1999 and has been responsible for the project ever since. The name was originally intended as an allusion to the Lynx text browser , which is pronounced the same in English. Links is able to display tables and frames, which was already an improvement compared to Lynx.
Text mode browsers, like those of the Links family, Lynx and w3m , can usually be used in two different ways:
- interactive: As with graphic web browsers, the user can surf the World Wide Web , but generally faster and also in technically restricted environments, such as at text terminals or via remote connections, for example via SSH without X forwarding.
- non-interactive: In the so-called batch mode , text mode browsers act as HTML-to-text converters, such as those used in B. for purposes of information retrieval or in screen readers or speech synthesis systems for the visually impaired and the blind.
This version of Links is no longer being developed. The development of the ELink based on it , which had made its own improvements (including experimental support for JavaScript), has also been suspended for several years.
Links 2.x
The first version of the successor to Links was published in 2005 by the Czech development group Twibright Labs. Links main programmer, Mikuláš Patočka, is involved in the project.
In contrast to the previous version and ELinks, Links 2 also offers a graphical mode, which allows the display of images, for example, if the graphics libraries required for this are installed. Up to version 2.1pre28 from 2007 there was also a JavaScript support.
In addition to the officially supported operating systems, there are ports by other programmers for macOS , Haiku , Plan 9 and MorphOS, among others . While Windows itself is not supported, you can use links under Cygwin or WSL .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Primary download archive
- ^ The history and evolution of the Links browsers , accessed August 27, 2018.
- ↑ Links and JavaScript in the Links User Manual, accessed April 28, 2019.