On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 04:31:09 +0000, Duncan wrote: > AnthonyL posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2015 12:01:27 +0000 as excerpted: > >> How best to view HTML content in the message Body Pane? >> >> Lynx would be fine, or must I start up a full fledged browser to view >> those messages? I'm not seeking a beutiful HTML rendering, just >> something that would remove the HTML coding and leave me with readable >> text. > > In general, you don't. Pan is old-school, adhering to the GNKSA, good > netkeeping seal of approval, which strongly encourages plain text. If > people want to read a web page, they use their browser and go to the > web. If they want to read news, that's what news is for, but it's > attachments, and plain text, not a web page. In this view, anyone > posting in HTML is a netiquette abuser and should end up in the > killfile, > at least if they continue said abuse after being asked nicely to post in > plain text, putting the HTML in a web page attachment, if they MUST have > it. >
I agree with you that this is the way it should be. > Tho there has been a bit of discussion about the possibility of doing > something like the claws-mail HTML-strip mode, which simply strips all > the html tags entirely (with the exception, I think, of anchor tags, > which it converts to standard non-HTML URLs). This is the feature I was looking for, specifically for reading the gwene newsgroups which are all HTML formatted RSS feeds posted on USENET. That way I could follow a few of my favorite feeds in PAN. However, the HTML content is unreadable as it is now. I'll give claws-mail HTML-strip mode a look, although I'll be sticking with PAN as my preferred newsreader. On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 04:31:09 +0000, Duncan also wrote: > In pan prefs, applications tab, there's a place to fill in a command for > an HTML previewer. I've no idea how it works (I've kept it blank here, > HTML belongs on the web and there are serious privacy and security > implications of trying to deal with it in random messages people post), > but it's there. Presumably it opens the HTML in whatever application > you list there, tho again, I've no idea if it does that automatically, > or if you have to trigger it in some way. You might try experimenting > with that. I Think I'll give that a miss, or at least experiment with it and then never use it. Thanks for your informative reply. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
