I miss websites that look like lynx's: https://lynx.browser.org/
Missing one line to look good in mobile.
Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained
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Re: Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained
#22I miss websites that look like lynx's: https://lynx.browser.org/
That landing page seems unmaintained, I think this is the main home page: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/
Re: Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained
#23Can we run it in Chrome?
Well apparently you can compile it to wasm so probably yes?
https://gist.github.com/Potherca/866dfc72de9bfe0fc5627945446...
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#24Re: Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained
#25Years ago (like 2013), I had an actual use case for lynx, which was that I was staying at a hotel long-term and I couldn't access the Wi-Fi landing page from my browser for some reason. But I could hit it from lynx, so I'd just log in from there every day.
Never had to do that since, but it sure saved my ass back then...
Re: Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained
#26I use thr shell alias "?" for websearch with lynx.
So "$ ? search term"
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Missing one line to look good in mobile.
What does that do, and why is it not the default?
Many mobile devices render pages in a virtual window aka viewport, which is wider than the screen, and then shrink the rendered result down so it can all be seen at once.
Mobile browsers can stop doing that any time they want. They do it because pages not optimized for mobile and break often in mobile.
This 'shit-sifting' phenomenon in common in open protocols with lots of software and inertia.
1. Bad shit in the other end breaks this end.
2. Fix it with hack in this end.
3. Good shit in the other end is now bad shit with the fix.
4. Add workaround to make good shit good again.
(Microsoft Internet Explorer was born after Bill Gates did seance and Satan taught him to use this phenomenon to corrupt the internet.)
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unreadable on a phone without zooming and panning. A little CSS wouldn’t be a bad thing here.
Perfectly readable in Firefox Mobile. Chrome too. What mobile browser are you using?
also works with android "Stoutner privacy browser"
with java scripts, cookies, DOM, turned OFF
went strait to the resources page, where there are versions for a lot of different OS's
nothing for android, but not realy expecting to find that, anyway.
Re: Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained
#30Oh, this brings back memories of my first steps with Gentoo linux, when I failed at setting up the display (XFree86 back then) or configure it properly, I remember browsing Gentoo wiki pages with Lynx to bring it back.