This article was first written for IOELive.com

Yet another Text browsing experience.
Q: How Was It?
A: Mindblowing !

Let me proceed with the screenshots.

The first thing I want to remind here is that this is the second review I have been doing related to text based browsers. The first was one for Lynx – Commandline browser

However, the Lynx definitely disappionted some of its users, due to many limitations it had. Now, I am pretty much sure, this review will answer some questions that are prevailing in your mind regarding text based web browsing.

The name I want to mention here is “ELinks – the Text Based WWW Browser”.

Let me mention first the great features in this browser other than the previous such browser mentioned.

1. This review is made based on the 0.11.1 version of the browser, released 3rd May 2007
2. Address Bar (g)
3. Menu Bar (ESC)
4. Add Bookmarks (a)
5. Bookmarks Manager (s)
6. Download Manager (d)
7. Browsing History Record (h)
8. Searching (/)
9. Mark the Hyperlinks (.)
10. Horizontal Page Scrolling ([,])
11. Column layouts (Default)
12. Mouse Supports (Right Click, Left click, etc…)
13. Plain/HTML view (Right Click to toggle)
14. UNICODE Support reserved, read this post in Elinks
15. and a lot more…

And the most important is the TABBED Browsing.’>’ to move to next tab, ‘<’ for previous tab and ‘t’ to open new tab, AMAZING)

Besides, the sites I could not visit in Lynx are viewed with best results in ELinks. Better give a try.
And to mention you all , this post is also made from Elinks Browser.

However, let me pick out some limitations,

1. Cut/Copy/Paste does not work
2. Right Click does not work at the form fields

And last but not the least, all images are toggled to links (Press ‘*’) It opens an external viewer to show the image, and presents every image as a link. This wasn’t in the Lynx.

To Install ELinks :
Linux:sudo aptitude install elinks
i do not know if it has a version for windows and other platforms.

Disclaimer
This article is an original article and does not cite any references. The findings and all presented here are based upon the author’s experience.

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