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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 http://elinks.or.cz/.
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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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INSTALL file for further instructions.
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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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If you want to request features or report bugs, see community information at
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http://elinks.or.cz/community.html and feedback information available at
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http://elinks.or.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 welcomed ;)
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History
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Initially, ELinks was a development version of Links (Lynx-like text WWW browser),
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with more liberal features policy and development style.
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Its purpose was to provide an alternative to Links, and to test and tune various
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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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the original Links, but a significant number of them got refused because
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Mikulas did not like them, as he just wouldn't have any use for them himself.
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He wants to keep Links with a relatively closed feature set and merge only new
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features which he himself needs. It has advantages that the tree is very narrow
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and the code is small and contains very little bloat. ELinks, on the contrary,
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aims to provide a full-featured web browser, superior to both lynx and w3m and
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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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$Id: README,v 1.24 2005/01/11 15:51:02 jonas Exp $
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vim: textwidth=80
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