[nycbug-talk] Firefox release party and NYC tech community

[George Georgalis]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:58:13PM -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
>George Georgalis wrote:
>
>>for comparison, I removed all that and installed w3m...
>>
>>c11# pkg_add -r w3m
>>Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//Latest/w3m.tgz... Done.
>>Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//All/boehm-gc-6.2_2.tgz... Done.
>> 
>>
>
>that's good to know, is it able to handle images ok with just these 
>packages tho?  i would assume one would still need png/jpeg/etc support 
>lib's somewhere.
>

Why? What do you expect a text browser to do with images? download them?
All that's done is render the ALT tag and maybe use the height and width
for layout. The big plus is ability to render pages like what those soho
firewalls generate...

// George


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