Re: eww, shr, and mm-text-html-renderer

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:
> 
> > On a related note, mm-text-html-renderer doesn't have eww. Why not?
> >
> > What is the difference between shr and eww?
> 
> shr is an HTML renderer.  eww is a web browser.  It's like the
> difference between Gecko and Firefox.

Gotcha.

> eww doesn't make much sense as a `mm-text-html-renderer' value/
> 
> > In an MH-Show buffer, which uses the value of mm-text-html-renderer to
> > render HTML, why are all of the images all down at the bottom of the
> > message when using shr? It would be preferable if they were inline.
> 
> shr does render images inline, except in tables.  Emacs doesn't provide
> the necessary control of the buffer to render stuff like
> 
> text text text text text text text
> --------- text text text text text
> | image | text text text text text
> --------- text text text text text
> text text text text text
> 
> which would be necessary for doing images inside tables without the
> tables becoming illegible by the presence of the images.

OK, then all of these emails must be tables then. Pity.

Thanks for the explanation.

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