From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: w3 and css Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:33:04 +1100 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: <87vd0gfblr.fsf@rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298119250 19405 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2011 12:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:40:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 19 13:40:46 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqm7B-0000km-Pd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:40:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pqm7B-0003B9-8V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:40:45 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6NYVJR6m8r5sbKnhViowr21xsjQ= Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ff853087.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=KPOPeIcDi; ?SG6fD[7G; H=L?0kYOcDh@:7^o:UA4R?c57hYWEOcT^f7]G; 2>V^?kW3CAkl5c@Xgk>A4^g5R:7fm=P; QS^X; MLi9 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185062 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79220 Archived-At: Andrea Crotti writes: > Il giorno 19/feb/2011, alle ore 11.27, Harald Hanche-Olsen ha scritto: >> >> I thought w3 was dead, so this got me all exited. >> Indeed the web site says “Emacs/W3 is dead, long live Emacs/W3” >> so I thought it had been revived, and maybe it has – but I downloaded >> the git repository and ran git log, which tells me the latest revision >> to the code was in May 2008. This does not bode well. >> >> A little more detail: It looks like development came to a halt in 2002, >> with a couple of fixes in 2003, then a hiatus until 2006, after which >> the project was continued by Magnus Henoch until May 2008. Whether he >> has abandoned it or he does not see any needs for further improvement is >> unclear to me. The w3-announce mailing list archives are full of spam. >> The w3-devel mailing list (http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.w3.devel) >> has a question similar to yours dated 15 Nov 2009 that looks similar to >> yours, and which was never answered on the list. >> >> My own very tentative conclusion is that w3 is still dead, and that w3m >> is a better bet. But I'll follow this thread with interest in case >> someone wants to tell us otherwise. >> >> -- >> * Harald Hanche-Olsen >> - It is undesirable to believe a proposition >> when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. >> -- Bertrand Russell > > > Ah good I didn't check it was dead. > I think I had the same problem last time :) > Maybe it's not worth to implement such a complicated thing like a browser in elisp, > there are way too many things to take care of. > > Anyway w3m from this page http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/index-en.html > doesn't really look in a good shape either, last release in 2005... > The w3m-el (i.e. elisp wrapper around w3m) is still being actively developed (last commit from the log is 19th Jan 2011). Don't know about w3m, but fromt he changelog on my system, the last entry is 31-05-2007. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au