Quoth Teodoro Santoni on Sun, Jun 29 2014 00:57 +0200:
though the controls are nice, despite the damn long cheatsheet required, edbrowse will soon suck a lot: it seems that they want to port the whole work to c++, to avoid nuisances (?) with Spidermonkey.
That is unfortunate. They also describe edbrowse as "a combination editor, browser, and mail client"[0] and seem to have rolled their own versions of fetchmail, sendmail and a number of other email utilities into a rather dense codebase. It's sad that retawq[1] and netrik[2] have such difficulties with the modern Web; both were small and somewhat well-defined. The former used Lynx-style keybindings and menus and the latter vi-style; both methods are ugly means of working with web pages. A program with the ability to follow links and post simple forms--almost like sic, although it would suck more (necessarily)-- would be tremendously useful. Beyond rendering pages, the biggest challenge seems to me to lie in coming up with a more intelligent method of selecting links than the usual crufty vi/emacs/Lynx-style interfaces. -- Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe [0] http://the-brannons.com/edbrowse/ [1] http://retawq.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://netrik.sourceforge.net/
