How to setup lynx browser
March 4, 2010
What is lynx browser?
For someone which don’t know lynx browser is an internet browser;
like Internet Explorer or Opera or Firefox. Major difference
related to that browser is don’t display any images!
Lynx browser is made for a fast browsing and because display
just text aid internet users to focus attention just to content
information on websites; any another images, graphics or flash
technology is ignored.
More time I considered that browser totally insipid but when
I used with my settings I discover which powerful is. By the way,
another characteristics of lynx is the user don’t use the mouse,
just the keyboard.
At my office I need a browser which don’t have the same look
like a usual browser (IE, Opera, etc.), more that, I wish to
setup my lynx browser to have notepad appearance.
Home page for lynx is http://lynx.isc.org and download page
http://csant.info/lynx.htm.
After I download lynx, unpacking and install in my directory
make some modification on opaque.lss – file where lynx keep settings.
Bellow are my settings for my lynx browser (stored in opaque.lss file)
which have in comment (##) short explanation:
em:bold:white
strong:bold:white
dt:bold:white
var:bold:white
samp:bold:white
b:bold:white
i:bold:white
##links and highlight color
alink:reverse:white:gray
a:reverse:blue:white
##image tag color (if an image from a website page have a tag, lynx will mark with that color)
img:dim:white:white
##footer color settings
status:reverse:black:white
fig:white:gray
caption:reverse:white
hr:white:gray
blockquote:reverse:black:white
address:white:white
##document title color
title:reverse:black:white
tt:reverse:black:white
h1:bold:white:default
label:reverse:black:white
value:reverse:black:white
high:reverse:black:white
q:reverse:black:white
small:reverse:black:white
big:reverse:black:white
sup:reverse:black:white
sub:reverse:black:white
lh:reverse:black:white
code:reverse:black:white
alert:reverse:black:white
##window color (penultimate is text from page, last is the background – white)
normal:normal:black:white
span.htmlsrc_comment:white:white
span.htmlsrc_tag:white:white
##the following makes no difference (except increasing the speed) since tag
##is already in white.
#span.htmlsrc_attrib:white:white
#span.htmlsrc_attrval:white:magenta
span.htmlsrc_abracket:white:white
span.htmlsrc_entity:white:white
##span.htmlsrc_href:
##span.htmlsrc_entire:
span.htmlsrc_badseq:white:red
span.htmlsrc_badtag:white:red
span.htmlsrc_badattr:white:red
span.htmlsrc_sgmlspecial:white:yellow
With that settings my lynx browser have notepad appearance and at first
look anyone don’t see major difference.
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