Re: GIMP against the rest(was Re: GUIs: Motif or ...? (was Re: tlug: Fw: Could Linux Kill NT?))

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "jb" == Jonathan Byrne <jpmag@example.com> writes:

    jb> Be warned, however, that most of the pages on 3Web's site were
    jb> not written by me and have not yet been flogged by me, so a

Not the point.  :-)  Most sites the home page itself, which is only
about 32 bytes of content (sans images), fails.  :-(

    jb> lot of them will not pass.  This applies to most of the ones
    jb> on the English version and almost everything on the Japanese
    jb> side, where only recently has anyone either known or cared
    jb> about such things.  What happens to them from here remains to
    jb> be seen.

Linux rules!

I'm sure there's spider software available for linux.  A little
scripting, and Presto!  JOISH (Jonathan's Own Irritating Supervisor
of HTML) is born!  Walk your own web, check them, and mail nastygrams
to the Perpetrators of Abomination.  All automagically, while _you_
write software reviews of the GIMP, PSP, and PhotoShop.  :-)

    jb> I noticed that the nsgmls in the Xemacs in TurboLinux chokes
    jb> on double-byte characters.

Not my job, mon.

Really.  This is an option in sp, not in XEmacs.  So ask Scott to do
up a double-byte-enabled sp for TL.

I don't recommend using w3.el as a verifier, too slow.  But it does
read DTDs, I think it's a full implementation.  It does _not_
implement the HTML, and XEmacs as yet has problems with font metrics
(=> table alignment is poor) so you don't want to 

    jb> Maybe you can write to Bill Gates on my behalf and ask him to
    jb> do something about the mail headers in Outlook Express :-) I
    jb> do use Pine a lot too, though.  Isn't that supposed to be OK?

"Mistah Gates" and I aren't on speaking terms at the present.  :-)

What I don't like about Pine is that AFAIK you either specify
ISO-2022-JP for all your mail, or you don't (this was 3.91 or so
though, so it may run through and check for ASCII-only now).

VM is smart enough to ask Mule what it thinks is in the buffer.  This
is extremely efficient, since Mule caches that information anyway.

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