hey, links2 is still alive and well, and there are now terminal browsers like chawan that can render images mostly correctly. There’s also a few that are actually either chromium or gecko. avoid those.
I do use links2 sometimes for looking things up on wikipedia or reading blogs or something like that, easier than starting a gui browser. but the usecase is a tad niche
There are 3 browsers. Everything else is just a reskin.
then what’s konqueror?
And only 2 main lineages left, Chromium and WebKit are both KHTML descendants
You could argue Goanna is its own thing by now. It was forked from Gecko, but Blink/Chromium was initially forked from WebKit.
There’s also Servo and LibWeb, but I don’t think either is really usable yet.
What about LadyBirdEdit: that’s LibWeb
vibecoded fashtech, but servo does exist
There’s also QtWebEngine, WebKitGTK+ and all the tui browsers.
which is Chromium
which is WebKit
…yeah, and I’m sure someone out there still has a working telegraph, but I wouldn’t list it as part of telecommunications infrastructure.
hey, links2 is still alive and well, and there are now terminal browsers like chawan that can render images mostly correctly. There’s also a few that are actually either chromium or gecko. avoid those.
Oh good, so they’re kind of on the level of Netscape Navigator.
around and about sorta. still no javascript tho
I do use links2 sometimes for looking things up on wikipedia or reading blogs or something like that, easier than starting a gui browser. but the usecase is a tad niche
QtWebEngine is just Chromium.
But yes, Links and Lynx are real.