Links
Links is graphics and text mode WWW browser, similar to Lynx. It displays tables, frames, downloads on background, uses HTTP/1.1 keepalive connections, and features Javascript. In graphics mode it displays PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and XBM pictures, runs external bindings on other types, and features anti-aliased font, smooth image zooming, 48-bit dithering, and gamma and aspect ratio correction.
| Tags | Internet Web Browsers FTP multimedia Graphics Viewers Finger |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent BeOS Windows OS/2 POSIX Unix |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 13 Sep 2013 12:43
Release Notes: Fixes a bug where horizontal line
was not displayed when the terminal was set to utf-8. Fixes a bad palette in the framebuffer on TGA on Alpha. Fixes a bug where \001 was displayed instead of a non-breaking space when converting to ASCII. Supports IPv6. Supports multiple addresses (tries to connect to all of them). Fixes a memory leak in FTP. Fixes incorrect display when the aspect ratio was changed while multiple windows were open.
- 02 Dec 2008 00:24
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 14 May 2008 13:37
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 06 May 2008 00:02
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 21 Apr 2008 20:55
No changes have been submitted for this release.
Recent comments
Re: A breath of fresh air...
> Thought you cannot copy text in Links
You can, holding the SHIFT key.
A breath of fresh air...
Of all browsers I have tried none, truly none, can face up to the speed, simplicity and niftiness of Links. Thought you cannot copy text in Links and some very few pages do display incorrectly in X11 mode this browser is simply the best.
ELinks on old handhelds
I've been searching for a decent text web browser to run on old handheld systems with 21 x 16 character displays, and ELinks seems to be a good candidate. However, I'm running into some problems. To your knowledge, has anyone attempted this before? If there is any information out there about this, it would make my life a lot easier :)
links
For a lot of people, running X is something they only feel the need, or want, to do when they need to use a web browser. Links saves the day for people who wish to stay in their sacred consoles. Setting the proper associations in your .links.cfg file to console based multi-media applications such as seejpeg, mpg123, etc.. along with the built-in page rendering capabilities links offers is truely a breath of fresh air.
Re: elinks
> Links is actively maintained by Mikulas,
> Clock,
> Brain and PerM (Twibright devolopment
> group together). It is being developped
> as a school project.
Sure, apologies; the situation was different when I wrote that comment.
However, ELinks (now Enhanced/Extended Links) is still available for those, who
honour higher configurability, sane cookies support, authentication support etc
rather than javascript or graphics support (altough that's being prepared as
well).
