Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:42:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Igor Roboul <igor@raduga.dyndns.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not XEmacs, after all? Message-ID: <14769.26147.535349.868626@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <114215100@toto.iv>
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> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:29:07AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > rob writes: > > > 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. > > Lynx will do that. In fact, it uses the same configuration file as > > some of the GUI browsers (your mailcap file). I don't think w3m uses > > mailcap files, but it might. > But, Lynx does not support tables (Ok, it support tables but does not > show it properly). There is yet another text based browser Links (not Lynx :-) ) > It supports tables and frames (as w3m does), but have a little different interface > so text browser of my choice is w3m-ssl, but Netscape is not too bad too :-) I know about links, but don't know if it supports mailcap (which was the question being answered). Of course, you could probably configure w3m to use the metamail viewer as it's "external image viewer", and *that* would use mailcap. > Mozilla is TOO SLOOOW :-(((( And Galeon requires GNOME, which sucks :-) I find it *very* scary that something using GNOME could be considered lightweight. I guess if you've already got all of GNOME installed, it wouldn't be to bad. But if you're not using it, it's a lot to load. As for speed - text is fast; GUI is slow. I've only seen one GUI browser that would render a page as fast as a text browser. It didn't display as much text (Hx fonts, ya' know), and you had to run it with images disabled. On the other hand, the UI was usable if you disabled images. It gave precedence to showing the alt text instead of formatting, and provided both "load this image" and "follow the link" areas for images with links. I've tried to talk to the author into either doing a Unix port, or releasing source so I could, but no go. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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