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| Original author(s) | Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Witold Filipczyk |
| Stable release | 0.17.0
/ 25 December, 2023 |
| Preview release | 0.16.0rc1[1] (3 December 2022) [±] |
| Repository | github |
| 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 | github |
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.[2] 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.[3]
On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.[4]
On 17 November 2017, ELinks was forked into another program called felinks meaning forked elinks.[5]
On 1 December, 2020, the felinks repository on GitHub was renamed to elinks because the old elinks was no longer being actively maintained.[6]
Elinks is being actively maintained: version 0.17.0 was released 25 December 2023.[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
- ↑ "ELinks - Full-Featured Text WWW Browser". Github. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ↑ "ELinks history page". Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- 1 2 Fonseca, Jonas (24 December 2004). "[elinks-users] [ANNOUNCE] ELinks-0.10.0 (Thelma)". Linux From Scratch. Archived from the original on 24 February 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ↑ Barrett, Edd (17 March 2017). "Remove www/elinks from the ports tree".
- ↑ "felinks". GitHub.
- ↑ "elinks". GitHub.
- ↑ "v0.17.0". GitHub.
- 1 2 3 4 5 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.