W3bView is a text-based web-browser used for displaying various types of hypertext documents and provides capabilities to improve accessibility and evaluation of them. It is a slimmed version of w3browse with all the other features omitted which are additionally provided by w3browse. The configuration file of both applications is the same and can be shared between both of them without problems.
Inline images are replaced by appropriate texts and framesets are transformed to nested lists with links to the frames. Scripts and style sheets are ignored. Many formatting and displaying parameters can be set to preferred values by the user in order to get reasonable and appealing text representations of pages.
The user interface of w3bview is based on a text window manager that operates either on a tty or within a native GUI window of the system. It can be controlled completely by a keyboard or by a pointer device, but a keyboard may be required for input of text.
W3bView has been designed to be mostly platform independent and is therefore able to run on a wide variety of systems including UNIX/Linux and MS-Windows.
The ZIP-archive w3bview.zip
contains the following files in a
subdirectory named w3bview
:
w3bview.exe |
main program of w3bview | |
gethost.exe |
helper program for resolving DNS hostnames into IP addresses | |
gzip.exe |
utility program for decompression | |
gzip.txt |
some comments on gzip.exe | |
gzip.dif |
the applied patch for gzip.exe | |
gpl.txt |
license of gzip.exe (GPL) | |
installe.* |
installation guide in english | |
installd.* |
installation guide in german | |
license.txt |
license of w3bview |
In order to install w3bview just unpack the archive w3bview.zip
in a
directory, a subdirectory named w3bview
will be created.
The general calling sequence for w3bview is:
\PATH\TO\BROWSER\w3bview.exe [-termxsrv ip-address[:port]] [URL]
\PATH\TO\BROWSER
should be replaced by the complete installation path of
w3bview.
The possible parameters of w3bview.exe
are:
-termxsrv |
Instructs w3bview to use a termxsrv connection to the
server specified by ip-address[:port] for display. The
default port is 8162.
|
|
URL |
Specifies the URL of a document that should be fetched and displayed directly after startup of the application. |
Copyright (C) 2005 Alexander Krebs <aleks@aksware.de>. All rights reserved.