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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<chapter id="basicnet-textweb">
9 <?dbhtml filename="textweb.html"?>
10
11 <title>Text Web Browsers</title>
12
13 <para>
14 People who are new to Unix-based systems tend to ask the question "Why on
15 earth would I want a text-mode browser? I'm going to compile
16 <application>X</application> and use <application>
17 Firefox</application>/<application>Falkon</application>/Whatever!".
18 Those who have been around systems for a while know that when (not if)
19 you manage to mess up your graphical browser install and you need to
20 look up some information on the web, a console based browser will save
21 you. Also, there are quite a few people who prefer to use one of these
22 browsers as their primary method of browsing; either to avoid the clutter
23 and bandwidth which accompanies images or because they may use a
24 text-to-speech synthesizer which can read the page to them (of use for
25 instance to partially sighted or blind users). In this chapter you will
26 find installation instructions for two console web browsers:
27 </para>
28
29 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="links.xml"/>
30 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="lynx.xml"/>
31<!-- <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="w3m.xml"/>-->
32
33</chapter>
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