ELinks
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| Developer(s) | Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca |
|---|---|
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux, Unix |
| Available in | English, Polish, Danish, French, Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, German |
| Type | Web browser |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Website | www |
ELinks is a free text-based console web browser for Unix-like operating systems.
It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the "E" in the name. Since then, the "E" has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended.[1] On 1 September 2004, Petr Baudiš handed maintainership of the project over to Danish developer Jonas Fonseca, citing a lack of time and interest and a desire to spend more time coding rather than reviewing and organising releases.[2]
On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.[3]
Features
- HTTP and Proxy authentication
- Persistent HTTP cookies
- Support for browser scripting in Perl, Ruby, Lua and GNU Guile[4]
- Tabs (though still text mode)[4]
- HTML tables and HTML frames[4]
- Background download with queueing
- Some support for Cascading Style Sheets[4]
- Some support for ECMAScript by using Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine[4]
- Editing of text boxes in external text editor
- Mouse support
- Colour text display
- Protocols supported:
See also
References
- ^ "ELinks history page". Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- ^ a b Fonseca, Jonas (24 December 2004). "elinks-users ANNOUNCE ELinks-0.10.0 (Thelma)". Linux From Scratch. Archived from the original on 20 February 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Edd Barrett (17 March 2017). "Remove www/elinks from the ports tree".
- ^ a b c d e Bolso, Erik Inge (8 March 2005). "2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup". Linux Journal. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
External links
- Official website
- Baudis, Petr (2001-10-28). "[ANNOUNCE] Experimental Links Tree". elinks (Mailing list).
{{cite mailing list}}: Unknown parameter|mailinglist=ignored (|mailing-list=suggested) (help) - Thomas Adam's ELinks page
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