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HTML Author: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 22:23:52 +0100
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-NOTE! work-in-progress (very slowly).
+!!!
+NOTE! work-in-progress (very slowly) and experimental.
+This code has many dirty hacks and ugliness. Intended for my personal use only.
+Knowing this: of course feel free to use it in any way you like, see LICENSE.
+
+!!!
+
+
+webdump
+-------
Text-based HTML dump
-Goals / scope:
+Goals / scope
+-------------
The tool will only render HTML to stdout, similarly to links -dump or
lynx -dump but simpler and more secure.
-- It will be usable and secure for rendering HTML mails.
-- No remote resources will be downloaded.
+- HTML and XHTML will be supported.
+- There will be some workarounds and quirks for broken and also legacy HTML code.
+- It will be usable and secure for reading HTML from mails and RSS/Atom feeds.
+- No remote resources which are part of the HTML will be downloaded:
+ images, video, audio, etc. But these may be visible as an url.
- Data will be written to stdout only.
-- No support for Javascript, CSS support, frames or form input.
+- No support for Javascript, CSS support, frames or forms.
+- No HTTP or network protocol handling in general: HTML data is read from stdin.