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| Developer(s) | Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 0.11.7[1] (22 August 2009) [±] |
| Preview release | 0.12pre6[2] (30 October 2012) [±] |
| Repository |  |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux, Unix |
| Available in | English, Polish, Danish, French, Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, German |
| Type | Text-based web browser |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Website | www |
ELinks is a free text-based console 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[edit]
- 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:
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "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[edit]
- 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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