[nycbug-talk] Firefox release party and NYC tech community

[Pete Wright]

George Georgalis wrote:

>On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 11:37:34PM -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
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>>George Georgalis wrote:
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>>>On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 02:15:46PM -0500, G Rosamond wrote:
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>>>>Nothing particularly interesting about Firefox/Mozilla mentioned in any 
>>>>discussion I had, in case anyone is curious.  Besides Lynx and Firefox, 
>>>>what other browsers are there anyway? ;-)
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>>>w3m is much better than lynx...
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>>>// George
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>>i'll bite:
>>links
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>Weird, I only know of links because some builds failed trying to use
>the -d (dump) switch from lynx on it, but on this stripped dfly box
>installing links required jpeg png pkgconfig tiff imake freetype2
>fontconfig and XFree86-libraries also...
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i'm %99 sure that i've had links running w/o X support...but maybe not.  
same with lynx as well.

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>... so what is good about it? (seriously)
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personal choice, i "get" the UI to links and lynx better than w3m.  
granted i've only used it now and then, but i just seemed to feel more 
comfortable with the other choices.


>for comparison, I removed all that and installed w3m...
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>c11# pkg_add -r w3m
>Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//Latest/w3m.tgz... Done.
>Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//All/boehm-gc-6.2_2.tgz... Done.
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that's good to know, is it able to handle images ok with just these 
packages tho?  i would assume one would still need png/jpeg/etc support 
lib's somewhere.

-p


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