W3m

Infobox Software
name = w3m



caption = w3m running in an xterm displaying the Wikipedia main page.
developer = Akinori Ito and [http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=39518 team members]
released = ?
frequently_updated = yes
programming language = C
operating system = Unix, Windows, OS/2
platform =
language = ?
genre = Web browser
license = MIT license
website = [http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ w3m.sourceforge.net]

w3m is a free software/open source text-based web browser. It has support for tables, frames, SSL connections, color and even inline images on suitable terminals. Generally, it renders pages in a form as true to their original layout as possible.

The name "w3m" stands for "WWW-o miru", which is Japanese for "see the WWW".

In Emacs

w3m is also used by the Emacs text editor via the "w3m.el" Emacs Lisp module. This module gives fast browsing of web pages inside of Emacs. However, rendering of web pages isn't done in Emacs Lisp; only final display is handled in Emacs Lisp with the rendering done by the w3m application. There is a native web-browser in Emacs, called Emacs/W3, which does both rendering and display computation entirely in Emacs Lisp, but "w3m.el" is much faster.

Forks

There are two forks of w3m that add support for multiple character encodings and other features not in the original:
# Hironori Sakamotos "w3m-m17n" (m17n stands for multilingualization), and
# Kiyokazu Sutos "w3mmee" (mee stands for "Multi-Encoding Extension").

See also

*List of web browsers
*List of web browsers for Unix/Linux

External links

* [http://w3m.sourceforge.net w3m official website]
* [http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/w3mmee/ w3mmee official website]
* [http://www.w3m.org old w3m site]