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Date:      Sun, 26 Mar 1995 07:00:03 -0600 (CST)
From:      Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
To:        paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
Cc:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, hasty@star-gate.com, fbsd@clem.systemsix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: httpd as part of the system.
Message-ID:  <199503261300.HAA17425@bonkers.taronga.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503260830.JAA02991@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 26, 95 08:30:35 am

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> The big beef is that it would be nice if we could ship a decent
> client with FreeBSD. We need a good viewer for our docs and lynx just
> isn't that nice.

TkWWW is pretty nice, if you don't mind it barfing on images (:-P).

It doesn't just not display them, it doesn't display alternates either.
It's more an editor than a browser though it can be used as a browser.

Chimera looks good, but at least the version I got doesn't work. It
displays the HTML instead of the formatted text, even for its own error
messages.

Phoenix is beautiful, but painfully slow.

City University HTMLview has an Imakefile that seems to depend on some
stuff the standard Imake config doesn't provide.

Viola is supposed to have a non-motif interface but it needs some porting
work and it has an even weirder build structure than the usual WWW software
(oh WHY did Cern set things up so strangely?)



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