The heart of the web is the GUI browser. Linux cannot change that.
This is well put. The web is meant for a conventional GUI browser. The text-based browsers are just doing a best approximation of what the site is so it can be shown in a terminal environment. One can't go around and make claims that (and I'm summarizing/paraphrasing here) that the web developers are doing a crappy job (I get that bulk of the web is crap, but that's a different topic) by not making sure the site will work in a text-based browser.
On Oct 18, 2024, at 11:41, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
From: Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
My sincere hope was, given all the claims to successful Linux access, someone is doing this in the heart of Linux, its command line.
The heart of the web is the GUI browser. Linux cannot change that.
Ideally, the web is identical for Windows and Linux users.
There are, of course, second order differences. Screen readers, for example. I think that you've said screen readers are better on Windows.
lynx, links, elinks all try to use a TUI for the web but are pretty hit-or-miss.
I don't know when you are using MS-DOS, but I would be surprised if you could browse well from MS-DOS. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk