yes, i actaully tried lynx and it was sorta wierd, i'll try elinks and see what happens do i have to type elinks show-cursor or not ----- Original Message ----- From: <mikster4@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:36 AM Subject: Re: getting off my windows dependency > Would be helpful if you described what you want help with. > > I will assume that you meant what e-mail clients and web browsers are > there. I will assume you have your hardware sorted, and can get a > connection to the internet. > I am currently writing this e-mail in cone. I like this because it allows > you to have multiple accounts specified, supports pop3, imap, smtp, local > mail and limited support for news accounts. I have found that cone does > not like my university imap server, so for that I use pine. There are many > more, and if you are using a distribution like Debian or Gentoo with many > packages and a package management system, search that for e-mail, or > similar. > > Web browsers, elinks is a good general purpose text based one, giving > cookies, java script, bookmarks, support for frames, and more. Most > pre-built packages of elinks do not seem to have java script, you may have > to build it from source (I found the patch included with elinks 0.11 did > not work on spidermonkey, so I had to compile spidermonkey with elinks > 0.10 first). Links2 comes with java script built in for most pre-built > packages, but links2 is more limited in features, elinks is a branch-off > from links2 and aims to give more features. Lynx is a very basic text > browser, but for simple things, I find best. There may be some for gnome, > but I don't know of these and their accessibility. Mike Farhan writes: > >> Hey i want to get off my windows dependency for reading email and using >> the net but i'm not sure how to do this. i need some help to get away >> from...microcrap. help? >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
