w3m
w3m is a pager/text-based WWW browser. It is similar to Lynx, but handles some things like page navigation differently. It can render tables and frames (by converting frames into tables) or display a document given from standard input. It can also be used with mouse in an xterm or in a gpm-driven console, and it is small.
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Recent releases
- 04 Jun 2007 05:32
Changes: Many fixes were made regarding building, i18n, and documentation. A format string vulnerability was fixed. Some bugs in the image display tools were fixed, along with enhancements such as the support of GTK+ 2. The handling of newline characters in HTML tags was fixed, as were several other minor bugs. Minor enhancements were made.
- 28 Apr 2004 13:33
Changes: Several Makefiles and other build files were corrected or changed. An HTTP basic authentication annoyance was fixed (bug# 244029), along with an IPv6 FQDN resolution failure in Debian. Other minor bugs were also fixed.
- 28 Apr 2004 13:29
Changes: Autoconf support was improved and other code cleanups were made. A "not-implemented-yet" feature in the Solaris build was also implemented.
- 30 Sep 2003 08:55
Changes: This release adds the options "-4" and "-6" to force IPv4 or IPv6 usage, the functions NEXT_VISITED and PREV_VISITED, and more autoconf usage.
- 19 Jun 2003 21:13
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- All comments
Recent commentsMisleading comment in release notes
Lynx can read a document from standard input, and (for several years) has had mouse support. Those items should be removed from the boilerplate description of w3m's differences from lynx.
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Charles
Re: W3M vs. links
> Lynx supports SSL.
True. It also supports mouse navigation, reading from stdin, etc.
w3m makes a nice auxiliary browser from lynx.
Re: W3M vs. links
> Last I checked w3m was the only text
> based browser to support ssl.
You're not right. Links supports SSL as well.
Bye!
Michael
Re: W3M - Better than lynx!
> Of what I've seen of this browser, it
> seems
> to be much better than lynx? Perhaps
> they
> should try to coordinate their work
> into one
> text-based browser. It might become
> very good!
From what I know of the w3m codebase, a code merge would be
difficult but I'm sure if there are any good features in Lynx,
w3m can steal them. :-) I'm not even sure Lynx is being
actively worked on nowadays.