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customizable and can be extended via scripts. It is very portable and runs
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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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on a variety of platforms.
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The ELinks official website is available at http://elinks.or.cz/.
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The ELinks official website is available at
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Please see the SITES file for mirrors or other recommended sites.
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If you want to install ELinks on your computer, see the
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http://elinks.or.cz/
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INSTALL file for further instructions.
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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 start point is documentation files available in doc/, especially the
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A good start point is documentation files available in doc/, especially the
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file named index.txt.
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file named index.txt.
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If you want to add a new language or update the translation for an existing
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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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one, please read po/README document.
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If you want to write some documentation, well you're welcomed ;)
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If you want to write some documentation, well, you're welcome! ;)
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History
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Historical notes
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Initially, ELinks was a development version of Links (Lynx-like text WWW browser),
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Initially, ELinks was a development version of Links (Lynx-like text WWW
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with more liberal features policy and development style.
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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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Its purpose was to provide an alternative to Links, and to test and tune various
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features, but still provide good rock-solid releases inside stable branches.
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new features, but still provide good rock-solid releases inside stable branches.
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If you are more interested, you can examine the Links website at
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http://links.sf.net/.
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Why not contribute to Links instead? Well, first I made a bunch of patches for
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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 a significant number of them got refused because
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the original Links, but Mikulas wasn't around to integrate them, so I started
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Mikulas did not like them, as he just wouldn't have any use for them himself.
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releasing my fork. When he came back, a significant number of them got refused
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He wants to keep Links with a relatively closed feature set and merge only new
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because Mikulas did not like them, as he just wouldn't have any use for them
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features which he himself needs. It has advantages that the tree is very narrow
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himself. He wants to keep Links with a relatively closed feature set and merge
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and the code is small and contains very little bloat. ELinks, on the contrary,
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only new features which he himself needs. It has advantages that the tree is
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aims to provide a full-featured web browser, superior to both lynx and w3m and
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very narrow and the code is small and contains very little bloat.
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with the possibilities of Konqueror and similar browsers. However, to prevent
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drastic bloating of the code, the development is driven in the course of
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modularization and separation of add-on modules (like cookies, bookmarks, ssl,
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lua etc).
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For more about ELinks history, see http://elinks.or.cz/history.html
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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.or.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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