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Documentation (ELinks)

jfdhuiz opened this issue · 5 comments

jfdhuiz commented

Your link to elinks is dead.

ELinks itself appears dead as well.

Consider the following:

    1. Latest stable is 0.11.7 (22 August 2009; 8 years ago), latest preview is 0.12pre6 (30 October 2012; 5 years ago);
    1. On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers;
    1. Some support for ECMAScript by using Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine;
    1. SpiderMonkey surely had security fixes since 30 October 2012; 5 years ago;

5 years is a long time in software land. I don't think this software should be used anymore, by you or anyone else. I don't think this software should be recommended anymore. If you recommend it, at least be clear about the above.

What I would recommend as alternative? I'm not aware of a CLI browser supporting JavaScript. Links removed their SpiderMonkey code from its tree because it was out of date.

Sources used: Wikipedia

tombh commented

That's really helpful context, thank you. So what I've done is actually just replace the link to this issue!

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hjpotter92 commented

There is also Lynx

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mycaule commented

And w3m which is quite popular too.

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