Links (web browser)
Links is a free software text and graphical web browser with a pull-down menu system. It renders complex pages, has partial HTML 4.0 support (including tables and frames and support for multiple character sets such as UTF-8), supports color and monochrome terminals, and allows horizontal scrolling.
Screenshot of a graphical Links | |
| Developer(s) | Mikuláš Patočka |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1999 |
| Stable release | |
| Preview release | None (N/A) [±] |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, OS/2, Unix-like, OpenVMS, DOS |
| Type | Web browser |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | links |
It is intended for users who want to retain many typical elements of graphical user interfaces (pop-up windows, menus etc.) in a text-only environment.
The original version of Links was developed by Mikuláš Patočka in the Czech Republic. His group Twibright Labs later developed version 2 of the Links browser, which displays graphics, and renders fonts in different sizes (with spatial anti-aliasing), but no longer supports JavaScript (it used to, up to version 2.1pre28). The resulting browser is very fast, but does not display many pages as intended. The graphical mode works even on Unix systems without the X Window System or any other window environment, using either SVGAlib or the framebuffer of the system's graphics card.