Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 09:15:36 +0000 From: rob <europax@home.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Johannes Zwart <johannes@jak.nl>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not XEmacs, after all? Message-ID: <39AF73B8.7756C392@home.com> References: <14767.47786.569589.118725@guru.mired.org> <39AF607C.811D6424@home.com> <14767.51857.465740.295504@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote: > > rob writes: > > After I saw the first post I checked out Xemacs. I have the latest > > port, and it doesn't seem to render web pages very well at all. In > > fact, I couldn't find a single one that looked right. What am I doing > > wrong? > > At first guess, I'd say you're assuming there's such a thing as "looks > right" for a web page. The rendering is controlled by the browser, not > the author, and not all browsers render the same way that Netscape and > MSIE do. At least some of the time, this has been because those two > (which are both variants of NCSA Mosaic) were buggy and the others > weren't. Properly written HTML will be readable in any browser if ugly > in most of them. HTML written following current popular practices will > be readable in the Mosaic browsers, and unreadable in other browsers. > > > I agree about Netscape. I am waiting for Mozilla with all of the > > features for FreeBSD. I will check out w3m today. Rob. > > Be warned, it's *not* a GUI browser; it runs in an xterm. The pages > will probably look less like what you expect than they do in Xemacs. > > <mike Actually, I would like to have some sort of text based browser that runs in the console, but only if I can somehow configure it to start other apps based on mime type. I would like to see how this works out for streaming mp3. On a laptop, I have found that using the keyboard is much preferable to a GUI. I tell people that its why I like Unix on the laptop, and they just look at me really wierd :) Using the console also really helps out with my poor wrist which aches after a week of mouse clicking at work on NT. Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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