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MacLynx beta 4: now with scrollbars and dialogue boxes

43 points by classichasclass 4y ago

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KingOfCoders 4y ago
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- flohofwoe 4y ago
  It's in the first sentence of the 2nd paragraph: Yes, MacLynx is a real, honest to goodness port of Lynx 2.7.1 to the classic Mac OS, compatible all the way back to System 7. Also, this is a personal blog post, not a company or product landing page.
  - KingOfCoders 4y ago
    An oak tree is a tree.
- hestefisk 4y ago
  I think it’s the Unix cli web browser “Lynx” ported to classic Mac.
- danpalmer 4y ago
  This is appropriate feedback for a Show HN or equivalent, and maybe for many landing pages, but I think it’s reasonable for blog posts to be written for their target audience, and not for the average HN reader. Bear in mind that many links are not submitted by authors as well. We should be capable of putting in a little effort when we’re not the target audience, and it’s not like it’s failing to sell something, the author doesn’t always need to appeal to all of us here.
aj7 4y ago
You know, with Musk’s problems in getting starship off the ground, it’s useful to recall the ultra simple design choices in the Saturn 5. But this?
anthk 4y ago
Good. Gopher and HTTPS support thru TLS 1.3. A good alternative for legacy Macs.
prvc 4y ago
Is Lynx 2.7.1 currently the best and most compatible console-based web browser?
- fathyb 4y ago
  Lynx is quite unique because its layout engine is really optimized for the console. Unfortunately, most websites nowadays don't render well with it. There is browsh but it's pretty slow compared to Lynx. I'm currently porting Chromium to the terminal with a text and a SIXEL back-end, I'll share it on HN next week (no Classic MacOS support!).
- tempodox 4y ago
  My lynx is a bit newer (current macOS + MacPorts): $ lynx --version Lynx Version 2.8.9rel.1 (08 Jul 2018) libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 3.0.7, ncurses 6.4.20221231
- fsiefken 4y ago
  Some notable ones: There is a recent fork of elinks which includes basic gemini support https://github.com/rkd77/elinks https://github.com/rkd77/elinks There is also w3m with inline image support. https://www.howtogeek.com/103574/how-to-browse-from-the-linux-terminal-with-w3m/ https://www.howtogeek.com/103574/how-to-browse-from-the-linu... https://github.com/tats/w3m https://github.com/tats/w3m Using firefox or chromium as under the hood back-end headless (browsh+firefox) would of course be best, though not as lightweight
  - thebeardisred 4y ago
    Thanks for mentioning elinks (http://elinks.or.cz/ http://elinks.or.cz/). I was about ¾ of the way through that article and thinking "as an academic exercise, sure. otherwise this just looks like 'its been done a thousand times before... but not by me.'" which was leading me to share the page for elinks.
- classichasclass 4y ago
  (author) I use 2.7.1 specifically because that's what was used in the original port and there are so many hacks it would not be a trivial undertaking to find all the changes to drag them forward, assuming a later Lynx even builds and runs on classic Mac OS. Current Lynx is more advanced.

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flohofwoe 4y ago
It's in the first sentence of the 2nd paragraph: Yes, MacLynx is a real, honest to goodness port of Lynx 2.7.1 to the classic Mac OS, compatible all the way back to System 7. Also, this is a personal blog post, not a company or product landing page.
- KingOfCoders 4y ago
  An oak tree is a tree.
hestefisk 4y ago
I think it’s the Unix cli web browser “Lynx” ported to classic Mac.
danpalmer 4y ago
This is appropriate feedback for a Show HN or equivalent, and maybe for many landing pages, but I think it’s reasonable for blog posts to be written for their target audience, and not for the average HN reader. Bear in mind that many links are not submitted by authors as well. We should be capable of putting in a little effort when we’re not the target audience, and it’s not like it’s failing to sell something, the author doesn’t always need to appeal to all of us here.

aj7 4y ago

You know, with Musk’s problems in getting starship off the ground, it’s useful to recall the ultra simple design choices in the Saturn 5. But this?

anthk 4y ago

Good. Gopher and HTTPS support thru TLS 1.3. A good alternative for legacy Macs.

prvc 4y ago

Is Lynx 2.7.1 currently the best and most compatible console-based web browser?

fathyb 4y ago
Lynx is quite unique because its layout engine is really optimized for the console. Unfortunately, most websites nowadays don't render well with it. There is browsh but it's pretty slow compared to Lynx. I'm currently porting Chromium to the terminal with a text and a SIXEL back-end, I'll share it on HN next week (no Classic MacOS support!).
tempodox 4y ago
My lynx is a bit newer (current macOS + MacPorts): $ lynx --version Lynx Version 2.8.9rel.1 (08 Jul 2018) libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 3.0.7, ncurses 6.4.20221231
fsiefken 4y ago
Some notable ones: There is a recent fork of elinks which includes basic gemini support https://github.com/rkd77/elinks https://github.com/rkd77/elinks There is also w3m with inline image support. https://www.howtogeek.com/103574/how-to-browse-from-the-linux-terminal-with-w3m/ https://www.howtogeek.com/103574/how-to-browse-from-the-linu... https://github.com/tats/w3m https://github.com/tats/w3m Using firefox or chromium as under the hood back-end headless (browsh+firefox) would of course be best, though not as lightweight
- thebeardisred 4y ago
  Thanks for mentioning elinks (http://elinks.or.cz/ http://elinks.or.cz/). I was about ¾ of the way through that article and thinking "as an academic exercise, sure. otherwise this just looks like 'its been done a thousand times before... but not by me.'" which was leading me to share the page for elinks.
classichasclass 4y ago
(author) I use 2.7.1 specifically because that's what was used in the original port and there are so many hacks it would not be a trivial undertaking to find all the changes to drag them forward, assuming a later Lynx even builds and runs on classic Mac OS. Current Lynx is more advanced.