viewing webpages inside emacs

viewing webpages inside emacs

[Thr4wn]

Is there a way to view pages inside emacs? I found the browse-url
family of functions, but I want to know if emacs can render html pages
itself (which seems rather unlikely), or even just view the results of
a textual browser inside emacs.

Re: viewing webpages inside emacs

[Xah]

On Jun 25, 10:19 am, Thr4wn <Seth.A.B...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to view pages inside emacs? I found the browse-url
> family of functions, but I want to know if emacs can render html pages
> itself (which seems rather unlikely), or even just view the results of
> a textual browser inside emacs.

there's a entire web browser written in elisp, bundled with xemacs,
called w3. You invoke it with M-x w3. This is back in 1999. I haven't
used xemacs for many years but am guessing xemacs still bundle it
though.

the w3 browser support not just text rendering like lynx, but also
images, html tables, and one of css or javascript i forgot which. It
about maybe 10 times slower than a dedicated web browser though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs/W3

this is about the only web browser in elisp i think.

but if you just interested in reading web pages in emacs, there's a
elisp interface to a external text-based browser called w3m. see

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/emacs-w3m

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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Re: viewing webpages inside emacs

[Thr4wn]

On Jun 25, 7:05 pm, Xah <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 25, 10:19 am, Thr4wn <Seth.A.B...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to view pages inside emacs? I found the browse-url
> > family of functions, but I want to know if emacs can render html pages
> > itself (which seems rather unlikely), or even just view the results of
> > a textual browser inside emacs.
>
> there's a entire web browser written in elisp, bundled with xemacs,
> called w3. You invoke it with M-x w3. This is back in 1999. I haven't
> used xemacs for many years but am guessing xemacs still bundle it
> though.
>
> the w3 browser support not just text rendering like lynx, but also
> images, html tables, and one of css or javascript i forgot which. It
> about maybe 10 times slower than a dedicated web browser though.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs/W3
>
> this is about the only web browser in elisp i think.
>
> but if you just interested in reading web pages in emacs, there's a
> elisp interface to a external text-based browser called w3m. see
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/emacs-w3m
>
>   Xah
> ∑http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄

Thanks!!

Re: viewing webpages inside emacs

[Tim X]

Thr4wn <Seth.A.Bird@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a way to view pages inside emacs? I found the browse-url
> family of functions, but I want to know if emacs can render html pages
> itself (which seems rather unlikely), or even just view the results of
> a textual browser inside emacs.

Two solutions I use

w3m-el, an emacs mode that uses w3m and displays pages in emacs. Works
really well for text stuff, but lacks javascript support.

The second alternative is w3.el - a web browser written in elisp. Has
some real potential IMO, but is lacking people to help develop it. 

Both solutions work nicely if you just want to view text based pages
that don't rely on javascript etc. 

Tim

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