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Encyclopedia > Lynx (web browser)
Lynx
Lynx being used on Mac OS X
Lynx being used on Mac OS X
Company/developer: University of Kansas
Stable release: 2.8.5  (February 5, 2004)
Preview release: none  (none)
OS: UNIX, Linux
Genre: web browser
License: GPL
Website: lynx.isc.org

Lynx is a text-only web browser for use on cursor-addressable, character cell terminals. Download high resolution version (488x706, 9 KB)Main page in Lynx 2. ... Mac OS X (pronounced Mac OS Ten) is the latest version of the Macintosh operating system, and is designed and developed by Apple Computer to run on their Macintosh line of personal computers. ... The term software company could be applied to; a) a company that produces software or b) a company that distributes software from a third party or c) a company that provides services for software Early Software companies list here. ... A software developer is an entity, either a company or individual, that creates software. ... The University of Kansas (often referred to as just Kansas or KU) is an institution of higher learning located in Lawrence, Kansas. ... February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Unix-like. ... This article is about Linux-based operating systems, GNU/Linux, and related topics. ... A software genre is a classification of software by its common function, type or topic. ... A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with HTML documents hosted by web servers or held in a file system. ... A software license is a type of proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the user. ... The GNU logo For other uses of GPL, see GPL (disambiguation). ... The front page of the English Wikipedia website. ... A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with HTML documents hosted by web servers or held in a file system. ... A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system. ...


Browsing in Lynx consists of highlighting the chosen link using cursor keys, or having all links on a page numbered and entering the chosen link's number. Current versions support SSL and many HTML features. Tables are linearized (scrunched together one cell after another without tabular structure), while frames are identified by name and can be explored as if they were separate pages. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), its successor, are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet. ... In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. ...


Lynx is a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of the University of Kansas and was originally developed by Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac. Garrett Blythe created DosLynx and later joined the Lynx effort as well. Foteos Macrides ported much of Lynx to VMS and maintained it for a time. In 1995, Lynx was released under the GNU General Public License, and is now maintained by a group of volunteers. The University of Kansas (often referred to as just Kansas or KU) is an institution of higher learning located in Lawrence, Kansas. ... DosLynx is an MS-DOS port of the Lynx Web browser. ... OpenVMS (Open Virtual Memory System or just VMS) is the name of a high-end computer server operating system that runs on the VAX and Alpha family of computers developed by Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts (now owned by Hewlett-Packard); it has also recently been ported to servers... The GNU logo For other uses of GPL, see GPL (disambiguation). ...


Lynx was originally designed for Unix and VMS and remains the most popular console browser on GNU/Linux. Versions are also available for DOS, and recent versions run on all Microsoft Windows releases. There is also a Macintosh version called MacLynx "for System 7 and later", but it is not regularly updated. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Unix-like. ... This article is about Linux-based operating systems, GNU/Linux, and related topics. ... The acronym DOS stands for disk operating system, an operating system component for computers that provides the abstraction of a file system resident on hard disk or floppy disk secondary storage. ... Microsoft Windows is a range of operating environments for personal computers and servers. ...


Because of its text-to-speech-friendly interface, Lynx was once popular with visually-impaired users, but better screen readers have reduced the appeal of Lynx for this application. Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. ... A screen reader is a software application that attempts to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the screen. ...


Its primary competitors are the web browsers Links (with variants Links2 and ELinks) and w3m. Links displaying the Wikipedia Main Page Graphical Links 2 displaying the Wikipedia Main Page Links is an open source text-only web browser with a pull-down menu system. ... Links is the plural form of link. ... Categories: Software stubs | Linux web browsers | Mac OS web browsers ... w3m with images in an xterm w3m is an open source text-based web browser. ...


See also

In human-computer interaction, computer accessibility refers to the usability of a computer system by people with disabilities. ... The following is a list of web browsers. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of web browsers. ...

References

  • Lynx. Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) is an on-line, searchable encyclopedic dictionary of computing subjects. ...

External links


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Apple - Downloads - Lynx text web browser - UNIX & Open Source (120 words)
Lynx has become quite popular as a “Universal Access” web browser for the Visually handicapped.
Lynx was originally developed at the University of Kansas.
In 1995 Lynx 2.4.2 was released under the GNU Public License by UKansas, since then it has been maintained and extended by a group of volunteers.
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