At 8:42 PM EST on March 21 Gary Johnson sent off:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:58:16PM -0500, Rob Reid wrote:
> > I've tried w3m and stripmime does just as well. In fact, I don't want any
> > fancy interpretation of HTML mail by default - it slows things down and can
> > be dangerous if the HTML interpreter executes javascript, etc..
>
> If stripmime works for you, then that's what you should use. w3m
> doesn't do javascript, etc., so it's safe.
One of these days it will, but javascript capable browsers always seem to have
a way of turning it off, for this reason.
> It does slow down the display of messages a bit, but not so much that it
> bothers me.
It does me, although I'm not sure the time difference has compensated for
finding and installing stripmime yet. Anyway stripmime is so simple that I can
quickly read the source and be sure what it's doing.
> > And then if the message had a good reason to use HTML, I'd have to dig up
> > how to *not* auto_view it, in order to send it to a real browser. That's
> > why I stopped using auto_view for html in the good old days before
> > Microsoft bought hotmail.
>
> That's what mutt's attachment menu is for. Just type 'v' from the index
> or pager and select the part of the message you want to view with a
> browser. My mailcap actually has these lines:
>
> #text/html; mutt_netscape %s; test=RunningX
> text/html; w3m %s; nametemplate=%s.html
> text/html; w3m -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
Thanks. What is mutt_netscape?
> I still prefer w3m as the browser because it is so much faster than
> netscape, so I have the netscape line commented-out for now.
By "good reason to use HTML" I meant either forms (w3mable) or essential
inlined images (not w3mable). I'm almost always running X, so I just send it
to galeon.
As far as speed, this isn't from my mailcap, but I'm sure you'll get the gist:
netscape "${}" & else netscape -remote "openURL(${})"
If something takes a long time to start, you probably only need to start it
once, i.e. emacs/emacsclient. Netscape's successor galeon does even better:
just "galeon URL" does the right thing. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to
do the same with Konqueror.
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