2023-04-13 10:02:21 -04:00
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# ELinks - an advanced web browser
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ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web
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(HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly
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customizable and can be extended via scripts. It is very portable and runs
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on a variety of platforms.
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The ELinks official website is available at
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http://elinks.cz/
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Please see the SITES file for mirrors or other recommended sites. If you
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want to install ELinks on your computer, see the INSTALL file for further
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instructions.
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A good starting point is documentation files available in doc/, especially the
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file index.txt.
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If you want to request features or report bugs, see community information at
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http://elinks.cz/community.html and feedback information available at
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http://elinks.cz/feedback.html.
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If you want to write some patches, please first read the doc/hacking.txt
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document.
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If you want to add a new language or update the translation for an existing
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one, please read po/README document.
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If you want to write some documentation, well, you're welcome! ;)
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Historical notes
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Initially, ELinks was a development version of Links (Lynx-like text WWW
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browser), with more liberal features policy and development style. Its purpose
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was to provide an alternative to Links, and to test and tune various new
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features, but still provide good rock-solid releases inside stable branches.
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Why not contribute to Links instead? Well, first I made a bunch of patches for
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the original Links, but Mikulas wasn't around to integrate them, so I started
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releasing my fork. When he came back, a significant number of them got refused
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because Mikulas did not like them as he just wouldn't have any use for them
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himself. He aims to keep Links at a relatively closed feature set and merge
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only new features which he himself needs. It has the advantage that the tree is
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very narrow and the code is small and contains very little bloat.
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ELinks, on the contrary, aims to provide a full-featured web browser, superior
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to both lynx and w3m and with the power (but not slowness and memory usage) of
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Mozilla, Konqueror and similar browsers. However, to prevent drastic bloating
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of the code, the development is driven in the course of modularization and
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separation of add-on modules (like cookies, bookmarks, ssl, scripting etc).
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For more details about ELinks history, please see
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http://elinks.cz/history.html
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If you are more interested in the history and various Links clones and versions,
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you can examine the website at
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http://links.sf.net/
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Old ELinks team lost interest in ELinks development somehow. felinks (fork of
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elinks) is continuation of elinks based on the master branch of the original
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elinks repo with main releases (new features and other incompatible changes) no
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more often than 1 yearly, and point releases (bugfixes) no more often than once
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a month.
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Repository was renamed to elinks on 2020-12-01 with Petr's approval.
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Main repo is at
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https://github.com/rkd77/elinks.git
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vim: textwidth=80
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