From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 26 05:06:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA16444 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 05:06:38 -0800 Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU (root@UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU [129.7.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA16438 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 05:06:34 -0800 Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA12810 (5.67a/IDA-1.5); Sun, 26 Mar 1995 07:00:50 -0600 Received: by bonkers.taronga.com (smail2.5p) id AA17440; 26 Mar 95 07:00:06 CST (Sun) Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA17425; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 07:00:05 -0600 From: Peter da Silva Message-Id: <199503261300.HAA17425@bonkers.taronga.com> Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system. To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 07:00:03 -0600 (CST) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, hasty@star-gate.com, fbsd@clem.systemsix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503260830.JAA02991@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 26, 95 08:30:35 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 882 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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?)