Ruario maintains the Opera AUR entry for Arch Linux also, and does very good job of it so earns credit:<p><a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10333" rel="nofollow">http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10333</a><p><a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33276" rel="nofollow">http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33276</a>
Funny to see an Opera guy suggesting a way to browse the web without using Opera :) He even says it is easier to read all the comments that way (via text using curl / wget/ grep) instead of using their browser (not that I don't agree with him).
Great approach, but some work could have been saved (and robustness added) using the W3C’s HTML-XML-utils. For example, there’s hxselect, which filters HTML/XML against a CSS selector, and hxpipe, which breaks XML input into a more grep/awk-friendly format. I’ve used these tools myself on multiple occasions, they’ve saved me a huge amount of time.
He's not alone. :-) Richard Stallman goes a step further as his laptop isn't directly connected to the internet.<p><pre><code> Quote: For personal reasons, I do not browse the web
from my computer. (I also have not net connection
much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to
a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to
me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it
is slow in real time.
</code></pre>
Source: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/" rel="nofollow">http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/</a>
Talk about wrong tools for the job. A far simpler to write, and more robust solution could be had many other way, simple_html in php for example, or javascript, any DOM parser will be more robust and easier to follow than all those sed/grep calls.