Editing Encyclopedia:Browser notes (section)

== [[Console application|Console]] and [[text-based web browser]]s ==
'''''Warning:''''' Many console browsers will convert text in edit boxes to the encoding in use by your terminal (or what the browser thinks is your terminal's encoding which may not be the same thing) either at page load time (links and lynx) or when editing a field (w3m). If your terminal encoding is UTF-8 this is not a problem but if your terminal is using a legacy encoding (or is using UTF-8 but your browser thinks it's using a legacy encoding) then this is likely to destroy characters that are not present in the encoding your terminal is using when you save the page after editing.

===[[ELinks]]===
*Text only, but renders tables and frames.
*Supports HTTP authentication.
*Users can use their text editor of choice to edit textarea fields.
*Problems with editing UTF-8; set "User-agent identification" (in setup->option manager->protocols->http) to something like "Lynx/elinks/%v (textmode; %s; %t-%b)" to get non-ascii characters as hex codes.
* View is enhanced (especially of diffs) by using the following user.css and lua hook file (place in ${HOME}/.elinks and enable via option manager)

;user.css:<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
/*
1. place in ~/.elinks
2. set user css to be "user.css" (no path, relative to ~/.elinks)
3. use document colors: use 1 or 2
*/

.diffchange {
	color: red;
	font-weight: bold;
}

.diff-deletedline {
	color: green;
}

.diff-addedline {
	color: cyan;
}

a.new {
	color: cyan;
	font-weight: bold;
}
</syntaxhighlight>

;hooks.lua:<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
--[[
lua preformatting function 

1. lua has to be installed before compiling elinks; if this
   is the case, it is used by default
2. place this file in ~/.elinks

this file does:

show <del> and <ins> element, make <s> more evident

preformatting for wikipedia pages: since elinks ignores the
class attribute of <td> tags, we move it into the inner
<div> element

]]

testing=false

function pre_format_html_hook (url, html) 
  -- formatting for <s> <del> <ins>
  html = string.gsub(html, '<[sS]>', '<s>[S:')
  html = string.gsub(html, '</[sS]>', ':S]</s>')
  html = string.gsub(html, '<[dD][eE][lL]>', '<s>[DEL:')
  html = string.gsub(html, '</[dD][eE][lL]>', ':DEL]</s>')
  html = string.gsub(html, '<[iI][nN][sS]>', '<s>[INS:')
  html = string.gsub(html, '</[iI][nN][sS]>', ':INS]</s>')

  -- diff-addedline and diff-deletedline classes
  if string.find(url, "diff=", 1, 1) or testing then
    html = string.gsub(html, '<td class="diff[-]addedline"><div>',
                             '<td><div class="diff-addedline">')
    html = string.gsub(html, '<td class="diff[-]deletedline"><div>',
                             '<td><div class="diff-deletedline">')
  end

  return html
end
</syntaxhighlight>

===[[Links (web browser)|Links]]===
*In old versions the login may be broken. ''(Try to check referrer sending and cookie handling. If everything fails try to use ELinks, and check the same settings.)''

===[[Lynx (web browser)|Lynx]]===
* Users can use their text editor of choice to edit textarea fields (this feature needs to be enabled at compile time)
* Forces wrapping of very long lines in a textarea, which is a problem in editing some articles.
* Display options for non-ASCII characters affect editing.
* Most tables are rendered as simple text.
* Viewing of diffs and redlinks can be improved by adding the following to the <code>lynx.lss</code> configuration file:
*::span.diffchange:bold:brightred
*::td.diff-deletedline:bold:green
*::td.diff-addedline:bold:cyan
*::a.new:bold:cyan