Re: Why do you want LYNX

[Dr P Barker <P.Barker@surrey.ac.uk>]

Hello All,

**the waffle**
I'd pretty much forgotten about Lynx, I used to use occasionally to
check that my WWW pages would be acceptible to Lynx users, but having
found a design style, and a few principles which worked I stopped. I
had another go today, after reading about the speed advantage.

**the point**  
Lynx didn't seem to tell me the URL of the page I was on: is this because 
of the version I was using (dunno which that was, but I guess I can get
access to others) or is it hidden away somewhere?

**the context**
> > > Why do you want LYNX?  It's only a text browser [...]
> >
> > Amazingly enough, there are still some beknighted folks whose access to
> > the Net is via a serial connection with character-mode terminal emulation
> > (e.g. VT100 or VT220).  :-)
>
> I use lynx just because I'm weird.
>
> Actually, since windows is big and slow, and netscape is bigger and
> slower, I use lynx for all my web searching.  It's like having a T1 line!
> If you click on a link and the page loads in typically 1 second, while
> netscape takes 15 seconds, then you can zip through websites searching for
> good ones.
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