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    does lynx actually text only

    Hey guys,
    hopefully from the title ive roped in some views...

    SO what i mean by actually
    does it download the images and video content etc..?
    as im typing this im realizing how dumb im being. but i like to be reassured.

    im alreay 70% of my download quota and its only the 11th.
    my guess is it doesnt eval the content path's so therefor doesnt get the image... is this right

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    Re: does lynx actually text only

    I would like to help, but I'm not sure what you are talking about. Could you re-word it to make it more understandable?

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    Re: does lynx actually text only

    Lynx is a text-only browser - it will not download videos/images etc.

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    Re: does lynx actually text only

    Quote Originally Posted by DrMelon View Post
    Lynx is a text-only browser - it will not download videos/images etc.
    ... thats what i meant.
    when your browser looks at html, it see's the img or the embed or whatever the tags are and it will fetch that video/picture, i was wondering if lynx did the same... just not display it.

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    Re: does lynx actually text only

    It does not download them - it ignores them. No need to worry.

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    Re: does lynx actually text only

    I think you should be able to download files

    lynx -
    source url > filename

    Replace URL with the URL of the page or image that you want to download. Replace filename with a filename that you want to give to what you are downloading.



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    Re: does lynx actually text only

    As most likely posted before, Lynx only renders text. It does render different styles for different tags. Copy and paste this to get an example:
    HTML Code:
    <html>
    <head>
         <title>PAGE TITLE</title>
         <link rel="stylesheet" href="default.css"> <!-- Is completely ignored -->
    </head>
    <body>
    <h1 align="center">HEADING<!--That still appears in the center and headerish --></h1>
    <p>
    <b>BOLD <!-- Appears in red --></b>
    <i>ITALICS <!-- Appears in seafoam green --></i>
    <code>CODE <!-- Appears in a dark green --></code>
    <blockqoute>BLOCKQUOTE</blockquote>
    <table>
         <tr>
              <td rowspan="3">I Hate:</td>
              <td>Steve Ballmer</td>
         </tr>
         <tr><td>and</td></tr>
         <tr><td>iPads</td></tr>
    </table>
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