From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "A. Lucien Meyers" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:46:08 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036441274 23498 80.91.224.249 (4 Nov 2002 20:21:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:21:14 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 188nii-00066n-00 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2002 21:21:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 188niO-00056U-00; Mon, 04 Nov 2002 15:20:52 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!newshub1.nl.home.com!news.nl.home.com!amsnews01.chello.com!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tu-darmstadt.de!news.belwue.de!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeed.sunrise.ch!news.sunrise.ch!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.230.119.246 Original-X-Trace: 1036440057 news.sunrise.ch 698 194.230.119.246 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106734 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3288 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3288 alkibiades@gmx.de (Oliver Scholz): > "Michael J. Barillier" writes: > [...] > > I've downloaded w3 v4.0pre.47 and have been getting that nasty > > ``wrong type argument: stringp, nil'' error[2] that's been mentioned > > lately. > > FWIW, I encountered this error message myself some time ago. In my > case the backtrace told me that it was related to the font size spec > in the default.css in w3/etc. I could get rid of the error by changing > default.css. I don't remember how exactly; it was something with > removing a "+", or somesuch. A backtrace should tell you more. But I > don't know if this is a proper solution (I doubt it). > > > Anyone have an opinion[3] on W3 vs. emacs-w3m? > > IMHO Emacs/W3 feels a lot more emacsish. Well, it is written in Elisp > anyways. I really wish it would be more actively developed, because > actually it is my favourite browser. And yes, I know emacs-w3m and I > use it as a last resort, when Emacs/W3 fails to render a page. I am > not happy with this, though. Why not, Oliver? w3m works and works well. w3 does not. Basta. BTW w3m also works quite well as a stand-alone browser under X. Have got w3m to render some sites which mozilla would not grok properly, e. g. http://www.lostworldsinc.com . Am I a w3m fan? Yes. Why? It works. Lucien -- If you receive this by error, please delete and inform sender. www.consult-meyers.com recommends e-mail encryption using pgp.