New version of the emacs WWW Browser

wmperry@indiana.edu (William Perry)
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 17:57:49 -0500
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From: wmperry@indiana.edu (William Perry)
Subject: New version of the emacs WWW Browser
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Hello all,
   This is just to announce the release of yet another beta version of the 
emacs World Wide Web Browser.  This is version .993 (Beta), but seems to be 
pretty stable.

   One of the major additions to this version is support for forms.  I have 
added the same extensions to the <INPUT> tag as Xmosaic - namely the RESET 
and SUBMIT types.  No type checking is done right now, but should be fairly 
straightforward to add.  Major bug thoug - in emacs18, if you edit the 
fields more than once it sends each edit to the server - anybody want to 
write a delete-zone function? :>

   Other changes include:
        1) More HTML+ support, including support for the <EM> tag, and all 
its            roles, <REMOVED> and <ADDED> tags, <SP>, and <BR>
        2) Better MIME support
        3) An integrated gopher mode - converts gopher output into valid 
HTML            and parses it like any other buffer - preserves the 
hypertext            flavor, and allows you to use the same viewers while in 
           gopherspace.
        4) Various small changes to the parser - better <ADDRESS> handling,  
          etc.

   For those of you who don't know what the emacs browser is, it is a world 
wide web browser written entirely in emacs lisp.  It has support for 
mulitple fonts when in xwindows (epoch,emacs19, and lucid emacs), and 
graphics (epoch version only).  It is fully HTTP/1.0 compliant, and is on 
its way to being HTML+ savvy.

   The files can be found at ftp://cs.indiana.edu/pub/elisp/w3/, the files are:

    w3.tar.z - the main browser files
extras.tar.z - support files that w3 uses (ange-ftp, gopher, and nntp)

   If you are just upgrading the browser (or already have the support files 
installed), you will only need the w3.tar.z file.

   If you pick up this package, please drop me a line and let me know so I 
can get a general idea of how many people are using it, and so I can let you 
know of alpha/beta releases.

   This should be coming out of beta release soon - it is getting very 
stable, and I am wrapping up the research project it is a part of, so I'd 
appreciate it if anyone who has the time try it out and let me know what 
breaks.  If possible, a working knowledge of emacs lisp is useful for 
sending in bug reports, but is not necessary (for bug reports, please 
include emacs version and the url of the document that broke it).

   The documentation is online at http://cs.indiana.edu:80/elisp/w3/docs.html

Thanks,
   Bill P.

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William M. Perry (wmperry@indiana.edu)