Lynx -- worth it?

[nicky]

I'm trying to decide if it's worth my time downloaded the text-based browser Lynx to test mine and my clients' websites' browser compatibility.

Yes or no?

[Apostropartheid]

Remove the CSS from your document and you have essentially the same thing. I've never figured out how to compile Lynx anyway. It's simply not worth the hassle.

[drhowarddrfine]

Hm. I have lynx on all my machines. It's hardly a hassle. Using lynx will show quite nicely how well your site is laid out. It's a good tool to use. You'd be shocked at how difficult some sites are to navigate.

[Apostropartheid]

Is Lynx even available for Windows? I looked about on the site but it seems a bit outdated. You'd think it'd be made a bit easier than a list of tarballs.

Is it really that different from a stripped site or one which has a zeroed stylesheet applied? I can't imagine why it wouldn't be.

[oesxyl]

Is Lynx even available for Windows? I looked about on the site but it seems a bit outdated.
some people don't fix things if are not broken, :)

You'd think it'd be made a bit easier than a list of tarballs.

ftp://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.7/index.html


Is it really that different from a stripped site or one which has a zeroed stylesheet applied? I can't imagine why it wouldn't be.
seems that you come back to life, :) You must see, :)

best regards

[oracleguy]

I would say it depends on the site. The handful of times I've used lynx it has been either to modify network settings on a firewall or router when I am SSHed into a server or when I need to grab a link for something when installing something on a server and I don't have easy access to another computer with a GUI.

[VIPStephan]

Opera has some nice text browser emulation options.

[drhowarddrfine]

You can tell a well laid out site in Lynx at a glance. It looks like someone's neat, organized term paper. A badly laid out site looks like garbage thrown at the screen.

[nicky]

But I could just as easily view the website in Opera's text-based mode?