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Yes, I know about Lynx. It's good, but just one tool. What I want from web command line is to be a set of tools: Lynx + wget + instagram client + twitter + etc.

• lutusp 14y ago
  Okay, fair enough. But there's a philosophy dating back to the early Unix command-line days and still applies, that argues for a building-block approach -- many small building blocks is "better" than one block that does everything. As I was preparing my reply, I was surprised to see that Lynx wouldn't function with my own website, but worked fine with Google. It turns out that Google knows how to negotiate with a text-only Web client, but it seems that's increasingly rare in modern times. Too bad -- it speaks to the ascendance of content-heavy sites in modern times, and relatively inflexible server configurations, including my own.
  • justips 14y ago
    > But there's a philosophy dating back to the early Unix command-line days and still applies, that argues for a building-block approach -- many small building blocks is "better" than one block that does everything. I agree. The prototype follows this philosophy. It contains a set of small modules: one module for a task.
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