Yeah, i agree about ebrowse. Its really an amazing piece of software. I was about to say that I'm kind of surprised it hasn't caught on in the sighted community as a way to do web browsing on a device with a very small text display. But, of course, that's because its so hard to learn. I know there's a good reason for that. Its an editor and a browser. But i think the non-intuitive user interface has diminished it's acceptance even in the blind community. If you could say "edbrowse http://www.google.com"; and from then on it would be just like being in firefox,I think it would be a lot more popular. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaijin" <gaijin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:31 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: Kumar Appaiah: Browsing with Elinks and using hooks > On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:01:42AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: >> Sorry for the follow-up but I forgot my other big issue with text >> browsers. > > I use edbrowse, myself. While I *could* use it for online > shopping/banking, I usually just go back to Firefox in Windows, and > because SourceForge isn't updating it's version of edbrowse, Debian > hasn't been keeping up with what's current. It still works well with > most websites, using the SeaMonkey java libraries to keep up with the > Jones'es for java support. It takes a little getting used to, but once > you know a page layout, you can navigate as fast as if you were sighted, > or you could simply script in a macro to handle the navigation for you. > Edbrowse's Google macro is a fine example of accessing and cleaning up > google's web pages to leave you with only the meat of the search results > and nothing else. Just type: > > <gg (search criteria) > > ...and edbrowse will fill in the search criteria as if you'd loaded the > page already, then filter out the results from the page headers and > footers. > > Michael > > -- > Linux User: 177869 Powered by Intel > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
