Comments on: Using text-only web browser Lynx to visit some of today’s top websites

By: blogs4bytes

blogs4bytes — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:46:51 +0000

SpencerWHunter Tested #plbkkt via #hshdsh 🙂

By: SpencerWHunter

SpencerWHunter — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:42:08 +0000

Test

By: blogs4bytes

blogs4bytes — Wed, 07 May 2014 11:56:43 +0000

good to be here // great purview on lynx web browsers on some of today’s top websites. #plbkkt via #hshdsh

By: akindeji

akindeji — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:17:07 +0000

Cool article. You should have also tested out some government sites.

If I were to teach a class in HTML5, I would use lynx as a test browser, that would really get the idea across that HTML isn’t about presentation but about content. Once we have a site that is usable in lynx then we would open Firefox and start styling the pages with CSS. Testing pages in lynx can be a helpful way to test for accessibility also. Important for anyone developing government sites.
I also use lynx from time to time when I need to look up how to do
something from the command like interface of Linux. Like just now my X
session froze and I couldn’t do anything, and I forgot the syntax for
pkill. I found the info in 10 seconds using lynx on a text console and
was able to restart my X session without need of restarting the whole
system. Very neat.

By: Jonathan Causon

Jonathan Causon — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:05:57 +0000

My website InstaImageHost has been made to ‘kind’ of work with older browsers and made sure I added alt tags on ALL images.
I used Pingdom’s Website Load Time Checker to make sure it’s fast and a good size.
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The site is *Amazing* and has helped me to much! Thanks Pingdon!

By: CohanRobinson

CohanRobinson — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:05:31 +0000

In fairness to Facebook the mobile version (m.facebook.com) works reasonably well in a text-based browser! Not that I’ve ever used SSH to get past a firewall

By: Pingdom

Pingdom — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 05:53:36 +0000

In reply to pbarnhart. @pbarnhart LOL, that's the best argument for using Lynx we've ever heard :)

By: pbarnhart

pbarnhart — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 05:50:28 +0000

Actually, IBM’s site is perfectly usable. Of course, Craigslist works – though its best to start out with your city. Whitehouse.gov does an excellent job (of usability – no politics intended). And I’m surprised you didn’t try Playboy – its not only works, for the first time you can honestly say you are just reading the articles.

By: haridara

haridara — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:30:44 +0000

Links is a more modern text browser that supports JavaScript and better formatting, so it would have been more interesting with it than Lynx.

BTW, I couldn’t post this comment from ICS browser as well as mobile chrome. The “Post comment as” button does nothing and I couldn’t disable the mobile theme.

By: Joshua K Farrar

Joshua K Farrar — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:27:07 +0000

Lynx is how I read / update our internal Wiki when I’m at the datacenter and don’t have a screen handy 😛