<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">George Shaffer</b> <<a href="mailto:George.Shaffer@comcast.net">George.Shaffer@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 21:46, Tim McCormack wrote:<br>> Chris Willis wrote:<br>> > NO browser (cept maybe a text browser in BSD or something) is really<br>> > 100% safe on its own. Firefox has lots of vulnerabilities, just like
<br>> > IE.<br>> . . .<br>> I agree about the text browser -- I should really familiarize myself<br>> with Lynx.<br><br>Continuing now OT thread:<br><br>Lynx has its uses, but anyone used to modern browsers is likely to find
<br>it frustrating. Lynx is not just text only in that it does not display<br>graphics but is text based and runs in a text window (terminal). It does<br>not recognize tables, and most modern web pages are built in tables,
<br>allowing the standard page and navigation elements, to be arranged above<br>or to the left of the main page content. This means as you read the<br>source, these come before the main text content. That is how Lynx<br>displays the page (as it is sequentially arranged in the source file) ;
<br>the main page content is usually between a screenful or more of standard<br>items and links and more of this at the bottom. A page as simple as<br>Google's home page takes 13 tabs or down arrows to reach the search<br>
field. Yahoo, on the other hand recognizes it has received a request<br>from a text browser, and sends a different page where the search field<br>is the first item on the page after "Yahoo". Lynx takes some getting
<br>used to.<br><br>Lynx is not simple. It's default configuration file is 140K, but mostly<br>explanatory comments. It has about 135 options. I don't know that you<br>can assume it's 100% safe. If you eliminate all active content from your
<br>current browser, or install an alternate browser (e.g., Netscape, Opera)<br>and disable all active content, and severely control cookies, wouldn't<br>that do what Lynx is intended to do while still seeing most web pages,
<br>more or less as intended?<br><br>George Shaffer<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Continuing the OT: and what about links?? it has "graphical" support, such as frames, pics...<br><br>Ricardo Lee<br>