From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: w3 and css Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:27:40 +0100 Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: 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 1298112033 20046 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2011 10:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:40:33 +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 11:40:27 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 1PqkEl-00031G-Ag for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:40:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56692 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqkEk-0002bb-Sg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:40:26 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: euler.math.ntnu.no Original-X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1298111260 26885 129.241.15.89 (19 Feb 2011 10:27:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ntnu.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:27:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:r+RV+dpbbd+ntM6scw8owlYOWm8= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185056 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:79215 Archived-At: [Andrea Crotti ] > I think I never actually saw w3 working on my machine, so I finally > wanted to get it working. > > I downloaded from the git repository here > http://www.gnu.org/software/w3/ 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