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.

[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 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 ;)

Features

Overview

Future goals