1 ELinks - an advanced web browser
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4 ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web
5 (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly
6 customizable and can be extended via scripts. It is very portable and runs
7 on a variety of platforms.
9 The ELinks official website is available at http://elinks.or.cz/.
10 Please see the SITES file for mirrors or other recommended sites.
11 If you want to install ELinks on your computer, see the
12 INSTALL file for further instructions.
14 A good start point is documentation files available in doc/, especially the
17 If you want to request features or report bugs, see community information at
18 http://elinks.or.cz/community.html and feedback information available at
19 http://elinks.or.cz/feedback.html.
21 If you want to write some patches, please first read the doc/hacking.txt
24 If you want to add a new language or update the translation for an existing
25 one, please read po/README document.
27 If you want to write some documentation, well you're welcomed ;)
34 Initially, ELinks was a development version of Links (Lynx-like text WWW browser),
35 with more liberal features policy and development style.
37 Its purpose was to provide an alternative to Links, and to test and tune various
38 new features, but still provide good rock-solid releases inside stable branches.
39 If you are more interested, you can examine the Links website at
42 Why not contribute to Links instead? Well, first I made a bunch of patches for
43 the original Links, but a significant number of them got refused because
44 Mikulas did not like them, as he just wouldn't have any use for them himself.
45 He wants to keep Links with a relatively closed feature set and merge only new
46 features which he himself needs. It has advantages that the tree is very narrow
47 and the code is small and contains very little bloat. ELinks, on the contrary,
48 aims to provide a full-featured web browser, superior to both lynx and w3m and
49 with the possibilities of Konqueror and similar browsers. However, to prevent
50 drastic bloating of the code, the development is driven in the course of
51 modularization and separation of add-on modules (like cookies, bookmarks, ssl,
54 For more about ELinks history, see http://elinks.or.cz/history.html
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