Editing Links (web browser) (section)

{{Short description|Web browser}}
{{Distinguish|Lynx (web browser)}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Links
| logo = Links web browser logo.png
| screenshot = {{Switcher | [[File:Webbrowser Links.jpg|270px]] |Graphical | [[File:Links-wikipedia-it.png|270px]] |Text}}
| caption = Screenshot of the Links Browser.
| author = 
| developer = Mikuláš Patočka
| released = {{Start date and age|1999}}
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q608910|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q608910|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}
| latest preview version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q608910|P348|P548=Q51930650}}
| latest preview date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q608910|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating system = {{Plain list|
* [[Windows]]
* [[macOS]]
* [[OS/2]]
* [[OpenVMS]]
* [[DOS]]
}}
| language = 
| genre = [[Web browser]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]
| website = {{URL|links.twibright.com}}
}}

'''Links''' is a [[free software]] [[text-based web browser|text]] and [[graphical user interface|graphical]] [[web browser]] with a pull-down menu system.<ref>[http://www.jikos.cz/~mikulas/links/ Links home page]</ref> It renders complex pages, has partial [[HTML]] 4.0 support (including tables, [[Framing (World Wide Web)|frames]],<ref name="scoug">{{citation|first=Dallas|last=Legan|title=Text-Mode Web Browsers for OS/2|url=http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2001/scoug009.textbrowsers.html|publisher=The Southern California OS/2 User Group|access-date=August 16, 2010|date=September 2001}}</ref> and support for [[UTF-8]]), supports color and monochrome terminals, and allows horizontal scrolling.

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|SVGAlib]] or the [[framebuffer]] of the system's [[graphics card]].