Text-based web browser
A text-based web browser is a web browser that renders only the text of web pages, and ignores graphic content. Under small bandwidth connections, usually, they render pages faster than graphical web browsers due to lowered bandwidth demands. Additionally, the greater CSS, JavaScript and typography functionality of graphical browsers require more CPU resources.
w3m displaying the Wikipedia home page with images.
Text-based browsers are often very useful for users with visual impairment or partial blindness. They are especially useful with speech synthesis or text-to-speech software, which reads content to users.
List of notable text-based web browsers
- Charlotte Web Browser (for VM/CMS)[1][2][3][4]
- Emacs/W3 & EWW for GNU Emacs
- Line Mode Browser (by Tim Berners-Lee)
- Links
- Lynx (and derivatives ALynx and DosLynx)
- w3m
- WebbIE
- browsh
gollark: The timeline is probably a few hundred years to run out of uranium.
gollark: *Technically* with a finite amount you'll eventually run out, but advancing technology should mean it would be easy to replace it anyway.
gollark: You don't need to. There's enough uranium.
gollark: We have enough for 70 years of current production available, and the many, many ways to get more or use existing stuff more efficiently have just been ignored because they aren't needed now.
gollark: Uranium is plentiful!
References
- "Description of CHARLOTT". IBM. IBM. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- Forde, Carl. "The Charlotte Web Browser". The Rexx Language Association. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- Forde, Carl. "The Charlotte Web Browser, part 2". The Rexx Language Association. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- "VM and e-business: VM Web Browsers". IBM. IBM. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
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