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Comment by rdtsc | Hacker News Reader

I like it. But I already use elinks in a terminal (most current Linux distros make elinks availble).

Here is how I run it:

$ elinks news.ycombinator.com

Then:

  Select story/comment :  "Up" and "Down" arrows. 

  Open story/comment :   "Enter"
  
  Go back to previous page : "Back" arrow.
 
  Quit : "q"

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Neat! I hadn't heard of elinks before. Sounds like a good idea. Do you use it for many sites other than news aggregation sites like HN and Reddit? Do normal sites render OK?

Mostly, they do. I use it for lots of web browsing, and most sites are fine, and it even obeys much of the styling, etc. However, some sites, like overcomingbias.com, get partially corrupted (like bad-decompression-corrupted, not looks-kinda-odd-corrupted), sometimes. Reloading often fixes the problem. I assume there's some issue with the gzip integration.

I thought facebook handled my attempt at using elinks with humor! "keep it real"

I never get tired of being amazed that Gmail works perfectly with elinks!

Nah, just HN. It's a minimalistic and clean enough site that elinks (and my eyes!) can handle.

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