[GTALUG] Linux and on line banking?

[Alex Kink]

> The heart of the web is the GUI browser.  Linux cannot change that.

This is well put. The web is meant for a conventional GUI browser. The text-based browsers are just doing a best approximation of what the site is so it can be shown in a terminal environment.

One can't go around and make claims that (and I'm summarizing/paraphrasing here) that the web developers are doing a crappy job (I get that bulk of the web is crap, but that's a different topic) by not making sure the site will work in a text-based browser.

> On Oct 18, 2024, at 11:41, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: Karen Lewellen via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> 
>> My sincere hope was, given all the claims  to successful Linux access, someone
>> is doing this in the heart of Linux, its command line.
> 
> The heart of the web is the GUI browser.  Linux cannot change that.
> 
> Ideally, the web is identical for Windows and Linux users.
> 
> There are, of course, second order differences.  Screen readers, for 
> example.  I think that you've said screen readers are better on Windows.
> 
> lynx, links, elinks all try to use a TUI for the web but are pretty 
> hit-or-miss.
> 
> I don't know when you are using MS-DOS, but I would be surprised if you 
> could browse well from MS-DOS.
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