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Date:      2 Dec 1999 22:39:17 +0100
From:      naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: web browser alternatives to n-scape
Message-ID:  <826ou5$ncv$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
References:  <19991202145844.22281@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9912022004520.94523-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> wrote:

> So apparently, lynx and netscape are the best bets right now, eh?

I'm heavily using W3M (ports/www/w3m-ssl) in a 96x32 xterm now.
It's a text mode browser that formats tables and can optionally
expand frames into a tabular layout. It also supports xterm mouse
tracking. To view images, you can easily spawn xv. For practical
purposes, W3M is quite good.

Deficiencies:
- I looked at the code, and I don't want to go there.
- Very limited character set support. It's ISO 8859-1 or one
  of various Japanese encodings. Compared to Lynx, which supports
  a wide range of terminal character sets and which will even
  transliterate cyrillic on the fly, this is outright pitiful.
- More or less hardcoded to certain types of ANSI terminals.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                  naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de



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