Re: Can't get W3 working for VM

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From: Tim X
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 08:23

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kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones) writes:

> giacomo boffi  <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> wrote:
>  > kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones) writes:
>  > > I'd say just forget it.  W3 seems to be moribund.  My next move
>  > > with regard to text/html is probably going to be to rip support
>  > > for it out of VM entirely.
>  > 
>  > don't! W3 works ok for me with simple to moderately complex html, like
>  > what is usually sent by the average mail client
> 
> But so does text/html -> text/plain conversion using lynx or w3m,
> and it's much faster.
> 
Only problem is that you lose all the links doing it that way. Using
w3, you can immediately follow a link if you like. I find w3 works
most of the time, but would prefer to use w3m as it is faster at
rendering pages.

Tim
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