Actually there is a text-only browser, but I am not sure the version I
use, is totally up to date....

It is called LYNX, and is part of the package that comes with linux, but
also exists for DOS/WINDOWS boxes, and winsock type connections as far as
I know.

Essentially, it translates the text bits, and ignores the graphics
completely. It registers as a "NON-FRAMES" browser, so it chokes to some
extent on the frames that everyone uses so much, and it also ignores the
inline graphics, causing some problems when you absolutely HAVE to see the
graphics, and they didn't anchor them.

Or when they map the graphics....

but you can often read the usemap directory, and link off of it, and
frames show up as a menu of different links, so you can link off of them.

If what you want is information, with graphics second, then I recommend
it, I actually downgraded my network connection so as to reduce the amount
of time I spent frustrated waiting for graphics to load.

                                Grey

GRAEME SMITH                         email: grysmith@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
YMCA Edmonton

Address has changed with little warning!
(I moved across the hall! :) )

Email will remain constant... at least for now.


On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Paul B. Webster VK2BZC wrote:

> Mark Willis wrote:
>
> >   If all you want is e-mail and basic web surfing, an old XT to 386 or
> > such and Net-Tamer can get you running,
>
>   Enlighten me?  What is Net-tamer?  A basic browser like Lynx IIRC?
>
>   What is *really* needed as a net-tamer is a browser which loads only
> text and perhaps graphics under a certain size, then lets you right or
> middle-click on the dummy icons over the graphics to bring up only the
> ones you want.
>
>   My wife (who is not Internet-friendly to start with) was trying to
> read a (local) Yellow Pages listing yesterday, but the server is
> massively under-powered for one, and the listings are spam-centred.
> She gave up in disgust.  A text browser would have given the real
> information and no more.
>
>   I have learnt to disable Javascript and *most* of the parasites go
> away, though Netscape 3 still suffers from one or two it seems and
> hasn't proper (global) cookie-rejection.
> --
>   Cheers,
>         Paul B.
>