On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:58:25PM -0400, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote:
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:56:11PM -0700, TBlittlefoot wrote:
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:52:44AM -0400, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote:
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:14:45PM -0700, TBlittlefoot wrote:
It would be nice if downloading images was optional, but I've been reading through the docs and haven't found a way.
Perhaps a configuration item in dillorc that would tell Dillo to first download just the HTML source, render the text, and then, if you chose to reload it, bring down the images too....??
Having a no-images dillo is easy. Having a good UI for doing images on demand is not that simple...
If Dillo could do that, and be used to convert HTML to plain text, I could ditch w3m!
Html2text is a different thing. Dillo doesn't render to a plain text canvas. It uses graphic objects (widgets). i.e. you'll have to keep w3m or similar for this task.
What if there was a text/image toggle that caused Dillo to just bring down the source without the image/sound files (which wget does by default, right?) then parse the text tags, like <p>,<i>,<h[1-5]>,<b>,<hr> and so forth, displaying the results. Then, saving the page as displayed would be the way Dillo did html2txt conversion?
That's exactly the problem: "saving the page as displayed".
You'd know better than I. Liking the modular approach, Perhaps one of the
The rationale for this is to speed up 'surfing' for the 45% of us that have dialup connections. Takes a long time to bring down the image/sound files for a page that turns out to be worthless for our current purposes.
Do you have an example of Dillo downloading sounds?
Errrr...No. I just assumed. The only sounds my box makes are the whirring of the fan, the grinding or whining of the disks, and a beep when I hit a wrong key. Glad to hear it. (so to speak :-)
I'll see if I can come up with a shell script that uses wget to bring down the source and does an adequate job of formatting the text therein.
Thanks for the response and the great browser, Jorge,
:-)
I'll see you that smile and raise you one. :-) :-) Tom