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I noticed that you talk about how to compile lynx. There is a *much* better text based web browser called "links" it resides at this URL. I downloaded and compiled it without any problem. It handles tables, and frames correctly. It is my browser of choice on OSX... it has yet to crash on me in many many hours of use.
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Doesn't mean you should.
Sometimes it makes sense...
I love OmniWeb. However, it doesn't work so well (OK, at all!) when I use SSH to connect to my home machine from the office, and need to hit a web page for one reason or another -- usuually to start a file download on the home machine. 'links' is perfect for that, since it runs from the command line.
Because you it's better
Yeah, OSX does provide a really beautiful GUI system, but it's a hell of a bloated one, too.
Sometimes I just need to get to one site, download a file, and I'm done. IE is a hell of a resource hog on my little iMac. Sometimes I'll be directed to an article I'd like to read, or I want to download a file from the web, or, as a web developer, I just want to see how pages I'm writing look on a text only browser (like, effectively, AvantGo on a Palm Pilot). And as another commenter noted, they're de rigeur over an ssh session. The GUI is beautiful, yes, but there is more than one way to do things for a reason.
That said, the closest binaries on the links site seemed to be for FreeBSD, which didn't
Open source is cool & all, but I hate having to build thorny packages. I hope this one
New version released...
Vasantha Crabb has compiled links 0.96 for OS X. I've put the new version up on my OS X Collection web page, or you can grab it from Vasantha's site.
Make sure you view and follow the instructions in the included README file for a proper installation.
-rob.
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