From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 2 15:32:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84EF714CF2 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 15:32:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id AAA17438 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 00:31:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA23978 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:39:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: web browser alternatives to n-scape Date: 2 Dec 1999 22:39:17 +0100 Message-ID: <826ou5$ncv$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <19991202145844.22281@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon McKitrick 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