ELinks
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| Developer(s) | Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 0.17.0[1] 
/ 25 December 2023 |
| Preview release | 0.16.0rc1[2]
/ 3 December 2022 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux, Unix |
| Available in | English, Polish, Danish, French, Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, German |
| Type | Text-based web browser |
| License | GPL-2.0-only |
| Website | www |
ELinks is a free text-based web browser for Unix-like operating systems.
It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the E in the name. Since then, the E has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended.[3] On 1 September 2004, Baudiš handed maintainership of the project over to Danish developer Jonas Fonseca, citing a lack of time and interest and a desire to spend more time coding rather than reviewing and organising releases.[4]
On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.[5]
On 17 November 2017, ELinks was forked into another program called felinks meaning forked elinks.[6] It is being actively maintained with the latest version at 0.14.3 dated 26 September 2021.[7]
Features
- HTTP and Proxy authentication
- Persistent HTTP cookies
- Support for browser scripting in Perl, Ruby, Lua and GNU Guile[8]
- Tabs (though still text mode)[8]
- HTML tables and HTML frames[8]
- Background download with queueing
- Some support for Cascading Style Sheets[8]
- Some support for ECMAScript by using Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine[8]
- Editing of text boxes in external text editor
- Mouse support (including wheel scroll)
- Colour text display
- Protocols supported:
See also
References
- ^ "Release 0.17.0". 25 December 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ "Release v0.16.0rc1". 3 December 2022. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
- ^ "ELinks history page". Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- ^ a b Fonseca, Jonas (24 December 2004). "[elinks-users] [ANNOUNCE] ELinks-0.10.0 (Thelma)". Linux From Scratch. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ Barrett, Edd (17 March 2017). "Remove www/elinks from the ports tree".
- ^ "felinks".
- ^ "v0.14.3".
- ^ a b c d e Bolso, Erik Inge (8 March 2005). "2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup". Linux Journal. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
External links
- Official website
- Baudis, Petr (2001-10-28). "[ANNOUNCE] Experimental Links Tree". elinks (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
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