w3m (pronounced '
double-yew three emm') is a
free text-based pager/
web browser.
1
Written by Akinori Ito of Yamagata University, w3m (short for 'www wo miru', Japanese for 'view the www') was based on a pre-1991 file pager also by Mr. Akinori named fm ('file wo miru').2 w3m is bilingual (Japanese/English) and was first released in 1995.
It has been confirmed that w3m runs under:
win32 binaries exist.
A holy war of sorts exists between those who favour w3m over lynx and links (or one of the more obscure text-based browsers) -- here are a few points raised in favour of w3m (although some of these are currently in development / implemented in the competition):
Although
Mr. Akinori has no plans for
w3m, development by other individuals continues --
Ambrose Li, for example, is responsible for implementing
cookies.
Source tarballs containing contributions are available from
http://www.w3m.org/.
Source:
- w3m home page:
- http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/
- timball's w3m page:
- http://www.w3m.org/
1 A note regarding pronunciation: In the
w3m faq, the author points out that '[
w3m] doesn't rhyme with
pteranodon'. No, I don't understand that either.
2 Shro0m points out that 'www wo miru' is a highly unusual transliteration and that people rarely use 'wo' as the particle. 'www o miru' is much more common.