Re: [Pan-users] html

[Heinrich Müller]

Am Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:23:26 +0000 schrieb Duncan:

> Steven D'Aprano posted on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:38:58 +1000 as excerpted:
> 
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:21:40AM +0000, Duncan wrote:
>> 
>>> However, there HAS been discussion of the possibility of implementing
>>> a simple "dumb tag stripper" mode (which will actually need to be
>>> reasonably smart
> 
>> +1000 on this idea.
> 
>> mutt does something very similar for email. It can be configured to use
>> a console browser like links, lynx or w3m to dump the html to text,
>> then display that.
>> 
>> http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2012/05/12/mutt/
>> 
>> I see no reason why Pan couldn't use an external dependancy for this
>> like mutt does. As you suggest, stripping tags is hard, there's no
>> reason why Pan should be forced to implement its own when it can push
>> the hard part onto existing tools, of which there are already at least
>> three.
> 
> That's a very useful suggestion. =:^)
> 
Done. Realized with webkitgtk-1.0
Have fun testing it.