Old School Browsing with w3m

Generally, I focus on the cutting edge goodies for the Web, but this week I spent some time with w3m after a long hiatus and thought it might be fun to take a step back and look at the old school Web. I needed to convert a page of HTML to text on the fly, and one of the best tools I’ve found for that is w3m. It’s also a pretty good, if extremely basic, Web browser if all you need to do is read pages on the Web.

Why muck with a text-mode browser? Certainly not because it‚Äôs full-featured. Firefox, Chrome, Konqueror, or Opera, any other modern browser will get you more bang for the buck than w3m ‚Äî though w3m‚Äôs rendering speed is pretty impressive. But w3m has a few features that you won‚Äôt find in other browsers that make it worth having around…

 

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