Mastodawn

Byte Knight Aug 24, 2023

MacLynx, a 1997 native Lynx text browser, has been updated!

Changes in this release:
- Pull-down menu support.
- 8-bit character support.
- Standard File Package save dialogues for both saving and printing.
- Line scrolling with the live scrollbar as well as the previous page scrolling introduced in beta 4.
- Command-click to download, Option-click for info.
- Fixed stalls with keydowns.
- Purring cat.
https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/08/maclynx-beta-5-utf-8-pull-down-menus.html

MacLynx beta 5: UTF-8, pull-down menus and more dialogue boxes, oh my!

I've been working off and on doing further Mac-ification to my updated fork of MacLynx, the System 7-compatible port of the venerable text b...

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Hunter Gough 🍦🌹Aug 24, 2023

@byteknight oh man, remember when people built webpages in html like civilized humans and you could browse the web with Lynx and it would actually look pretty good?

Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

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wkrick

@luvcraft @byteknight

Back in the old days, I used to use Lynx all the time to grab the text content (not HTML) of web pages with a script and pipe it through an AWK script. It was a super handy way to scrape data from the web without writing a ton of code.