[Gllug] re: HTML Mail

Rev Simon Rumble simon at rumble.net
Wed Mar 3 11:26:46 UTC 2004


This one time, at band camp, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:37:47AM +0000, Doug Winter wrote:
> > 
> > That way you get the text preferentially if they've sent it, otherwise
> > it renders the html using w3m (which does nice stuff with tables).
> 
> Not to mention the w3m developers have discovered some astonishing 
> hacks to let them display images in the terminal
> 
>   http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~hsaka/w3m/#img
>   http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~hsaka/w3m/mapion.png

I presume these are using similar hacks to what Word Perfect used to
use on Wyse terminals to show a print preview?  That was pretty
impressive.

Anyone know if this stuff will work under putty? 8)

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