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Does anyone have a chart/rundown of why we should choose links/lynx/w3m? The old main page calls links / lynx "neighbors"... http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ http:

Does anyone have a chart/rundown of why we should choose links/lynx/w3m? The old main page calls links / lynx "neighbors"... http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ I use links (gentoo user here), but I do not really see a huge difference between the three.

gjvc 5y ago
there is no "we", just the decision of each person.
- zamadatix 5y ago
  There is a we! It's all of us here now, the audience and/or potential users. We may not all make the same decision in the end but it'd be exceedingly odd if none of us were expected to have a shared reason backing our choice. You still have a valid question if you ask just for "I" but you'll end up with a thread about your specific case not a thread about the target users for each.
  - gjvc 5y ago
    not one any individual can accurately represent to any reasonable degree of confidence
    - zamadatix 5y ago
      But no one individual need represent the group, in fact the group need not be represented at all. The question posed is why we should choose, not why we must choose for everyone and announce the choice here. E.g. we should choose links over lynx/w3m if JS support is a hard requirement. That doesn't mean we all have JS support as a hard requirement or should all agree on the a single choice.
      - gjvc 5y ago
        i think you need to reread this thread
        zamadatix 5y ago
        I have now done so. Unless you were hoping I'd notice something else could you perhaps clarify what you meant by: "not one any individual can accurately represent to any reasonable degree of confidence" if that's where you feel the disconnect was? I'm not quite sure I followed what you meant there. If not, maybe you could clarify the particular part you fealt I needed to reread? I've also got a reply to the original question by the GP that might clarify what I've been talking about by example of that's what was unclear.
zamadatix 5y ago
Some versions and forks of links have JS support which can differentiate it. Lynx and W3M are extremely similar, W3M was Japanese and in the 90s had much better support for the language. Lynx has unicode now but I'm not sure if it's fully on par in Japanese text rendering or not now. I'll also throw browsh in as another sub-category, it uses a headless instance of Firefox (packaged separately allowing independent updates) in the backend for full web support but presents the page in text-mode.

gjvc 5y ago

there is no "we", just the decision of each person.

zamadatix 5y ago
There is a we! It's all of us here now, the audience and/or potential users. We may not all make the same decision in the end but it'd be exceedingly odd if none of us were expected to have a shared reason backing our choice. You still have a valid question if you ask just for "I" but you'll end up with a thread about your specific case not a thread about the target users for each.
- gjvc 5y ago
  not one any individual can accurately represent to any reasonable degree of confidence
  - zamadatix 5y ago
    But no one individual need represent the group, in fact the group need not be represented at all. The question posed is why we should choose, not why we must choose for everyone and announce the choice here. E.g. we should choose links over lynx/w3m if JS support is a hard requirement. That doesn't mean we all have JS support as a hard requirement or should all agree on the a single choice.
    - gjvc 5y ago
      i think you need to reread this thread
      - zamadatix 5y ago
        I have now done so. Unless you were hoping I'd notice something else could you perhaps clarify what you meant by: "not one any individual can accurately represent to any reasonable degree of confidence" if that's where you feel the disconnect was? I'm not quite sure I followed what you meant there. If not, maybe you could clarify the particular part you fealt I needed to reread? I've also got a reply to the original question by the GP that might clarify what I've been talking about by example of that's what was unclear.

zamadatix 5y ago

Some versions and forks of links have JS support which can differentiate it. Lynx and W3M are extremely similar, W3M was Japanese and in the 90s had much better support for the language. Lynx has unicode now but I'm not sure if it's fully on par in Japanese text rendering or not now. I'll also throw browsh in as another sub-category, it uses a headless instance of Firefox (packaged separately allowing independent updates) in the backend for full web support but presents the page in text-mode.