text browser with tables and javascript support

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 9 18:02:02 UTC 2004


On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:46:01PM -0500, John Vetterli wrote:
> My text-based browser of choice is w3m, which also does tables, but
> still no JavaScript.  I agree that no JavaScript can be a good thing.
> 
> http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Side note: If you run w3m in an xterm, w3m can display images in the
> xterm window.  Of course, this defeats the purpose of a text-based
> browser, so you may want to disable it when you compile.  It looks neat,
> though.

It does that on a framebuffer concole too.

Very lightweight browser, with a horrible set of keys for navigating. :)
It feels like the author likes working with the CAPS key on.

Lennart Sorensen
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