Text Only Browser Emulator

Setting preferred to True makes this browser a preferred result fora get() call with no argument. Otherwise, this entry point is onlyuseful if you plan to either set the BROWSER variable or callget() with a nonempty argument matching the name of a handler youdeclare.

Text only browser emulator

The majority of people reading this page will have never used a text-only browser. Why would they? It was precisely because the HTML protocol was able to handle graphics and colours that the WWW became the Net's "killer app" in the first place. A look at pages which collect statistics on browser use (try the links on the browser news page, which will open in the second browser window) show that text-only browsers like Lynx are fringe applications at best; at worst they are simply invisible. So why should you design your pages to cope with text-only browsing?

Hopefully the virtual lecture has answered that question. It's a matter of access to your information. Some people are obliged to use text-only browsers or their close relatives, non-visual browsers, whether because of disability or the system they are using (remember that the Web is a global medium and in poorer countries or districts the most up-to-date technology is unlikely to be available). Some people freely choose to use them. Both these factors place the obligation on you, the designer, to write your pages in ways which make them look acceptable on text-only browsers. In addition, a text-only browser like Lynx is therefore an excellent test for a web page, because if the page looks OK on that, it will look OK on almost anything. If you like, it's the "lowest common denominator" - though, I'd add, without the usual derogatory connotations of that term.

The first is the alt attribute. Without alt, images become gaping holes in documents when viewed in a text-only browser. Remember that alt is a compulsory attribute, but you also need to ensure you are using it properly. As the screen shot of the Lynx emulator below suggests, it is also a good idea to make your alt a full description, that is, prefix the text with "Image of..." or "Illustration of..." as when the alt is rendered as normal text, a less effusive description could simply be mistaken for normal text, and cause confusion. If an image is purely illustrative, however, you can include a dummy alt (that is, alt=" ").

The second thing is to make sure, particularly if you've used tables for whole page layout, that the page still looks OK when linearised. In Lynx, tables are no longer rendered across the page. Instead, cells are rendered from top to bottom, following the code order, left to right. That is, if this page were viewed in Lynx (and you can try it via the emulator below), the menus on the left will all come first, then the main text. Not too much of a problem, you'd think, and you'd be right: but some pages are so designed that the information no longer makes sense when viewed like that, usually because the designer had stuck it in table cells in no particular order in the first place. This is one reason why the standard usability recommendations suggest putting navigation menus on the left of the screen, and also why the use of "skiplinks" is recommended for greater accessibility. Check both those pages for details.

The easiest thing to do here is show you an example. Here is a link to a Lynx emulator (as usual, it opens in the second browser window). Enter the URL of your page (as with the validator, to make best use of this you will need a page published on the web already rather than merely being on your local drive) and click the button. You will see a version of your page as Lynx would render it: something like this perhaps (note that the "links" seen below are not real links):

If it really becomes too difficult, simply create a "no-frills" version of the site; as I do here, with all the printer-friendly pages. They also serve as versions of these pages easily accessible with text-only browsers. Make sure that this "parallel" version of the site can be reached from most or all of the full version.

Here, because Google cut off the text before adding the brand name (the text before "..." is the original text), only 35 characters of the original title were displayed. See more below about how to prevent search engines from rewriting your title tags.

Guacamole provides access to much of the functionality of a desktop from withinyour web browser. Although most people use remote desktop tools only whenabsolutely necessary, we believe that Guacamole must be aimed at becoming aprimary means of accessing desktops, and the interface is thus intended to beas seamless and unobtrusive as possible.

Certain key combinations are impossible to press within a web application likeGuacamole because they are reserved by the operating system(Ctrl+Alt+Del or Alt+Tab, for example) or by the web browser. Ifyou press one of these reserved combinations, the effect will be observedlocally, not remotely, and the remote desktop will receive only some of thekeys.

Clicking (or tapping) the buttons of the on-screen keyboard has the same effectas pressing the same buttons on a real keyboard, except that the operatingsystem and browser will not intercept these keypresses; they will only be sentto the remote desktop.

Now that you know what inner text and hidden by CSS means, let us iterate our definition which says, getText() method in Selenium fetches the inner text of an element, which is not hidden by CSS and returns it as a String value. In simple words, whatever is displayed as text on the browser will be returned as-is by the getText() method. If there is no text corresponding to a web element an empty string is returned.

Text browsing is navigating the web in text-only mode. This means that images, flash animation, videos or any media element will be fully ommited. Usually the way the user interacts with text-based web browsers is by using the keyboard instad of the mouse.

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A text browser provides only the text content of the web pages, ignoring any graphic content. In contrast, a graphical browser displays images inline together with the text rather than showing images on a separate window.

When general public Linux distributions came around, web browsing was quite young, but with some way behind it. There were several web browsers already, many of them ported gradually to Linux. Some text-based web browsers were in the first wave. After a while Linux became the main habitat of text-based browsers, where most of them are developed and used. Even if these text-based web browsers are mostly intended not just for Linux, but for various other *nix systems as well. And there are also their ports to plenty of other operating systems for most various platforms.

HTML ( tables and frames including ), SSL, colors and inline images on capable terminal emulators / consoles. W3m is able to run some CGI scripts without any HTTP server, acting as a HTTP server itself. W3m is used in the Emacs text editor for web pages rendering with an Emacs interface to it, emacs-w3m - for web surfing without leaving the editor.

Line Mode Browser is the second web browser ever created. It was initially one of the most popular web browsers, later replaced by Mosaic and in its proper niche, text-only web browsing, by Lynx. So that Line Mode Browser ended up to be a test or example application for the libwww library and distributed as a part of the libwww package. The development of Line Mode Browser is still active.

There is also Debris text-based browser, but it is not always possible to compile and install it on modern Linux distributions. And Emacs/W3, a text-based web browser for the GNU Emacs text editor, written in GNU Emacs Lisp programming language. It seems to be replaced in GNU Emacs with eww / Emacs Web Wowser, plus W3m / emacs-w3m can also be used instead.

w3m is a popular open-source text-based web browser for the terminal. Even though the original project is no longer active, an active version of it is being maintained by a different developer Tatsuya Kinoshita.

Links2 is an interesting text-based browser that you can easily utilize on your terminal with a good user experience. It gives you a nice interface to type in the URL and then proceed as soon as you launch it.

The web browser we usually use, runs in a graphical environment (GUI). On your Raspberry Pi device, you need to start X and the graphical browser. The GUI consumes a significant part of the Raspberry Pi resources. What if you are connecting remotely using secure shell and GUI is not available? The solution is to use Linux text mode browsers on the Raspberry Pi terminal. Here I will present a few text mode browsers.

The text based browser runs in a Linux terminal. It cannot do everything a normal browser can. In the system administration life, you only need to retrieve information, like reading blog posts, manuals, accessing REST APIs etc. To perform these tasks, command line browser works fine and save valuable system resources.

w3m is another text-based web browser and pager. It is perfect for browsing and reading pages on a terminal or a terminal emulator window. The w3m browser supports tables, cookies and HTTP authentication. JavaScript is not supported.

elinks : "an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts. It is quite portable and runs on a variety of platforms"

retawk : "an interactive, multi-threaded network client (web browser) for text terminals on computers with Unix-like operating systems. It is written in C, fast, small, nicely configurable, and comfortable; e.g. the low-level network communications are performed in a non-blocking way, and you can keep open as many "virtual windows" as you want and work simultaneously in two of them in a split-screen mode"