glfs/basicnet/textweb/textweb.xml
Randy McMurchy 4edfbea905 Fixed typos in Chapter 17 text
git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@4810 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0
2005-07-27 23:43:37 +00:00

32 lines
1.5 KiB
XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
]>
<chapter id="basicnet-textweb">
<?dbhtml filename="textweb.html"?>
<title>Text Web Browsers</title>
<para>People who are new to Unix-based systems tend to ask the question "Why on
earth would I want a text-mode browser? I'm going to compile
<application>X</application> and use
<application>Konqueror</application>/<application>Mozilla</application>/Whatever!".
Those who have been around systems for a while
know that when (not if) you manage to mess up your graphical browser install
and you need to look up some information on the web, a console based browser
will save you. Also, there are quite a few people who prefer to use one of
these browsers as their principle method of browsing; either to avoid the
clutter and bandwidth which accompanies images or because they may use a
text-to-speech synthesizer which can read the page to them (of use for instance
to partially sighted or blind users). In this chapter you will find installation
instructions for three console web browsers:</para>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="links.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="lynx.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="w3m.xml"/>
</chapter>