On Dec 3, 2007 10:19 AM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > comex wrote: > >I couldn't imagine using a text-mode browser as my standard one. > >What's the point...? > > They're much more user-friendly than graphical browsers. I've never > found a graphical browser that I was comfortable about using. > > Fundamentally, graphical browsers are evil and rude because they do > what the website tells them to do, rather than what I want them to do. > They have lots of magic behaviour that makes them unpredictable. > They don't play nicely. And they all use the kind of GUI exemplified > by Windows, which I've always found painful to operate. > > Then there's the documentation. This is an issue that particularly, > but not exclusively, arises with graphical programs, which often try > to do their own sui generis interactive help system instead of a plain > old man page. I've found that in such browsers (e.g., Firefox) the help > system is no help whatsoever, because it merely parrots what is already > apparent from the interface, rather than explaining deep concepts or > giving useful advice. I suspect that this is no coincidence: I suspect > that the program's authors are themselves confused, have failed to instill > the program with any deep concepts, and are not sufficiently serious > engineers to see the value in documentation. I generally avoid using > such poor programs, and so am not often subjected to the correspondingly > poor documentation. > > I don't have much call for graphical stuff anyway. Right now, a fairly > typical state, my work environment consists of an X server on a 2560x1024 > display (two monitors side by side), twm, and eighteen xterms. No other > X clients running. Many times a day I'll want to view an image from a > website, in which case lynx happily fires off xloadimage; I like that > this happens only for the images that I actually want to look at, rather > than for tens of useless images per web page. When I really need to do > Javascript, which is almost exclusively for viewing the company's website > (which I'm indirectly implementing), I'll start Firefox. So, generally, > almost everything I do is text based, and I prefer to view text in a > specialist tool (xterm) than in something that's mainly concerned with > a GUI. > > People these days forget what the "T" in "HTML" stands for. > > -zefram > See? A nonsensical action. They do exist!
BobTHJ
