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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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