ELinks

ELinks
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Developer(s)	Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca
Stable release	0.11.7 (22 August 2009; 11 years ago) [±]
Preview release	0.12pre6 (30 October 2012; 8 years ago) [±]
Repository	repo.or.cz/elinks.git;
Written in	C
Operating system	Linux, Unix
Available in	English, Polish, Danish, French, Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, German
Type	Text-based web browser
License	GPL-2.0-only
Website	www.elinks.cz (elinks.or.cz)

ELinks is a free text-based web browser for Unix-like operating systems.

It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the E in the name. Since then, the E has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended.^[3] On 1 September 2004, Baudiš handed maintainership of the project over to Danish developer Jonas Fonseca, citing a lack of time and interest and a desire to spend more time coding rather than reviewing and organising releases.^[4]

On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.^[5]

Features

HTTP and Proxy authentication
Persistent HTTP cookies
Support for browser scripting in Perl, Ruby, Lua and GNU Guile^[6]
Tabs (though still text mode)^[6]
HTML tables and HTML frames^[6]
Background download with queueing
Some support for Cascading Style Sheets^[6]
Some support for ECMAScript by using Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine^[6]
Editing of text boxes in external text editor
Mouse support (including wheel scroll)
Colour text display
Protocols supported:
- local files, finger, http, https, ftp, fsp, smb, IPv4, IPv6
- experimentally: BitTorrent, gopher,^[4]nntp

References

^ "ELinks - Full-Featured Text WWW Browser". elinks.or.cz. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
^ "ELinks - Full-Featured Text WWW Browser". elinks.or.cz. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
^ "ELinks history page". Retrieved 14 December 2010.
^ ^a ^b Fonseca, Jonas (24 December 2004). "[elinks-users] [ANNOUNCE] ELinks-0.10.0 (Thelma)". Linux From Scratch. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
^ Barrett, Edd (17 March 2017). "Remove www/elinks from the ports tree".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Bolso, Erik Inge (8 March 2005). "2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup". Linux Journal. Retrieved 5 August 2010.

External links

Official website
Baudis, Petr (2001-10-28). "[ANNOUNCE] Experimental Links Tree". elinks (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2008-10-28.

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[1] "ELinks - Full-Featured Text WWW Browser". elinks.or.cz. Retrieved 30 August 2014.

[2] "ELinks - Full-Featured Text WWW Browser". elinks.or.cz. Retrieved 30 August 2014.

[3] "ELinks history page". Retrieved 14 December 2010.

[announce-4] Fonseca, Jonas (24 December 2004). "[elinks-users] [ANNOUNCE] ELinks-0.10.0 (Thelma)". Linux From Scratch. Retrieved 24 February 2019.

[openbsd-5] Barrett, Edd (17 March 2017). "Remove www/elinks from the ports tree".

[linuxjournal-6] Bolso, Erik Inge (8 March 2005). "2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup". Linux Journal. Retrieved 5 August 2010.

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ELinks

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