MacLynx beta 4: now with scrollbars and dialogue boxes

Lynx is quite unique because its layout engine is really optimized for the console. Unfortunately, most websites nowadays don't render well with it.

There is browsh but it's pretty slow compared to Lynx. I'm currently porting Chromium to the terminal with a text and a SIXEL back-end, I'll share it on HN next week (no Classic MacOS support!).

My lynx is a bit newer (current macOS + MacPorts):

  $ lynx --version
  Lynx Version 2.8.9rel.1 (08 Jul 2018)
  libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 3.0.7, ncurses 6.4.20221231

Some notable ones:

There is a recent fork of elinks which includes basic gemini support https://github.com/rkd77/elinks

There is also w3m with inline image support. https://www.howtogeek.com/103574/how-to-browse-from-the-linu... https://github.com/tats/w3m

Using firefox or chromium as under the hood back-end headless (browsh+firefox) would of course be best, though not as lightweight

(author) I use 2.7.1 specifically because that's what was used in the original port and there are so many hacks it would not be a trivial undertaking to find all the changes to drag them forward, assuming a later Lynx even builds and runs on classic Mac OS. Current Lynx is more advanced.