[BRLTTY] Is there a feature-compatible text-based browser

Christian Schoepplein chris at schoeppi.net
Fri Sep 19 04:37:55 UTC 2025


Hi,

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 08:03:31PM -0400, Kyle wrote:
>kperry at blinksoft.com ameandika:
>> There has to be a better interface than lynx.
>
>
>I'm not one to use text-based browsers, usually due to their outdated HTML
>support and keyboard interface inconsistencies. But I must say that w3m has a
>much better interface than does Lynx. The key is that w3m already opens any
>page it sees in much the same way as a text editor, so it is very easy to
>arrow up and down line by line or left and write by characters or words, and
>the tab key also works as expected.

Exactly that are the reasons why I also do not use lynx for years and 
switched also to w3m if I use a textbased browser. And because w3m acts like 
a document in a texteditor it can also be used without a brailledisplay and 
speech only. With lynx this is much more complicated.

>I think the only thing I would miss is navigation by headers, buttons, 
>fields, etc,  as I can do with Orca.

Yes, that are also the things I miss in w3m.

>Other than that though, dumping Firefox or Chromium into w3m's interface 
>somehow would be a much nicer solution than dumping it into Lynx I think.

+1, thats also my opinion from a non developper view...

Ciao,

  Schoepp



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