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lynx being used on Mac OS X
Lynx is a text-only WWW browser for use on cursor-addressable, character cell terminals.
Browsing in Lynx consists of highlighting the chosen link using cursor keys, or having all links on a page numbered and entering the chosen link's number. Current versions support Secure Sockets Layer and many HTML features. Tables are linearized (scrunched together one cell after another without tabular structure), while frames are identified by name and can be explored as if they were separate pages.
Lynx is a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of The University of Kansas and was originally developed by Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac. Garrett Blythe created DosLynx and later joined the Lynx effort as well. Foteos Macrides ported much of Lynx to VMS and was maintaining it for a while. In 1995, Lynx was released under the GPL and is now maintained by a group of volunteers.
Lynx was originally designed for Unix and VMS and remains the most popular console browser on GNU/Linux. Versions are also available for Microsoft DOS systems. Recent versions also run on Microsoft Windows. There's also a Macintosh version "for Systen 7 and later," though it is not regularly updated.
Because of its text-to-speech-friendly interface, Lynx was once popular with visually-impaired users, but better screen readers have reduced the appeal of Lynx to blind people.
Its primary competitors are the Links, links2, ELinks, and w3m web browsers.
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de:Lynx (Browser)
fr:Lynx (navigateur)
ia:Lynx
nl:Lynx webbrowser
ja:Lynx (Webブラウザ)
pl:Lynx
csb:Lynx
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