Subj : Re: HTMLTERM
To   : Vk3jed
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jul 17 2017 10:33 pm

  Re: Re: HTMLTERM
  By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Tue Jul 18 2017 12:28 pm

 > -=> Nightfox wrote to KK4QBN <=-
 >
 >  Ni> That's an interesting idea, although I'm wondering why not just use the
 >  Ni> web interface with a web browser?  I'm not sure what the advantage
 >  Ni> would be of a telnet client able to parse/render HTML.
 >
 > Yeah, I'm not sure of the advantages either, but what I would like is to be
 > able to strip HTML from incoming messages in selected areas (specigically, a
 > gated mailing list).  Simply selecting the text/plain MIME part is
 > apparently not the answer, I would like to be able to strip the HTML on
 > messages that come from a specific mailing list.  In this instance, the HTML
 > probably adds no benefit, so simply stripping it is enough.
 >
 > Thinking about this further, this could be part of an email pre-processor
 > that strips HTML according to user or sysop preferences (i.e. by email
 > address).  Good for those who use BBS tools for their email on Synchronet.
 > Having it optional would allow those of us who use POP clients to receive
 > the HTML as it was intended.
 >
 > Is there any such beast around in JS that will run on Synchronet already?

Sort of. There's exec/typehtml.js (for example), which converts HTML files into
Ctrl-A format so that it can be displayed to a BBS terminal/client (usually
ANSI).

                                            digital man

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