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Just because you can...
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
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