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                                         Features

   More and more features are being added to ELinks which might be seen as a problem
   by some people. Big and complicated browsers are more vulnerable when they travel
   around on the Net. Therefore ELinks strives to become more and more modularized
   so only the exact feature set needed by the user will make it into the compiled
   program.

Overview

     * [c] means the feature is configurable at build time.
     * [d] means the feature depends on help from an external library or program.
       Some of the dependencies are listed on [11]the installation page.
     * [e] means the feature is experimental and might not be complete or released.

        Protocols and standards

     * HTML3 (but will eat most HTML tag soup and also a lot of HTML4 stuff)
     * Local file support
     * HTTP authentication
     * Proxy authentication
     * JavaScript / ECMAScript [e] [c] [d]
     * SSL (https) using either OpenSSL or GNU TLS [c] [d]
     * Cascading Style Sheets [e] [c]
     * FTP support (passive and active mode)
     * Finger support [c]
     * IPv6 support [c]
     * Local CGI support [c]
     * SMB support (requires smbclient) [c] [d]
     * Persistent cookies support [c]
     * Mimetypes file support for mapping file extensions to content types [c]
     * Mailcap support for mapping content types to external handlers [c]
     * Internationalized domain names [c] [d]

        User interface

     * Cute menus and dialogs
     * Tabbed browsing
     * Translated to many languages [c]
     * Full-featured history browsing [c]
     * Keybinding manager to easily change bindings or add new ones
     * Forms history [c]
     * Completion and history in commonly used input dialogs
     * Typeahead searches
     * Command line mode [e]

        Configuration and extensions

     * Highly configurable through menus and/or human readable text files
     * Support for browser scripting (Lua, Guile, Perl) [c] [d]
     * Hiearchic bookmarks
     * XBEL bookmarks format support [c] [d]

        Rendering

     * Tables and frames rendering
     * Support for monochrome, 16 (ANSI) colors and 256 colors ([c]) terminals
     * Full color support - both foreground and background according to user
       configuration and/or as specified in the document

        Downloading

     * Background (non-blocking) downloads
     * Download resuming support
     * Compressed downloads support [c] [d]

   Also a lot of smaller but still pleasant features ;)

Future goals

   The current main goals of ELinks are:
     * HTML engine rewrite; DOM support
     * Graphics mode support
     * Disk cache (maybe :)

   For the other (mostly minor) planned features [12]check the enhancement bugs
   filed against [13]Bugzilla.
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   Last Modified: 23-Feb-2008 11:12:18 CEST. Validate: [17]CSS [18]XHTML.

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   7. http://elinks.or.cz/faq.html
   8. http://elinks.or.cz/feedback.html
   9. http://elinks.or.cz/news.html
  10. http://elinks.or.cz/search.html
  11. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/installation.html
  12. http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=enhancement&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
  13. http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/
  14. http://elinks.or.cz/feedback.html#web
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