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

[Pete Wright]

George Georgalis wrote:

>On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 03:14:38PM -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
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>>>On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:58:13PM -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
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>>>>George Georgalis wrote:
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>>>>>for comparison, I removed all that and installed w3m...
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>>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...
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>>yea i agree, but the underlying system is going to have to know what to 
>>do with those binary files correct?  if you do not have a library to 
>>decode binary tiff files on your system, for example, then you will not 
>>be able to view them right.  how is w3m able to get around this?
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>Maybe you should describe what you are talking about because I have no
>idea.  ...A text browser doesn't do anything with binary files accept
>maybe auto-magically launching an audio player or image viewer (at least
>try). All this is done with the file's magic number (first two bytes)
>and mime magic, eg the file (program) database.
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>// George
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i'm sorry for the confusion all, i've used this version of w3m i suppose:

http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~hsaka/w3m/#img

it displays images inline during a w3m session.  for some reason i 
assumed that this was built into the default w3m build, i guess not.

-p

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