[X-Newbies] Text based web browser for Tiger on G5.

[Scott]

On Jan 25, 2006, at 6:59 AM, Brian Durant wrote:

> On 1/24/06, Vincent Cayenne <vcayenne at mac.com> wrote:
>> At 8:58 PM +0100 1/24/06, Brian Durant wrote:
>>> Funny, Safari doesn't save to text. Camino seems to do a great job.
>>> The problem is that when you highlight text and copy or even  
>>> saving as
>>> a text file, you get all this extraneous java, graphics or URL stuff
>>> that you have to edit in before you can get real, unadulterated text
>>
>> You're doing it wrong - when you copy in Safari, the content is held
>> in multiple forms (I'm over-simplifying) and will paste in the
>> "richest" form that the destination accepts. You just need to change
>> the characteristics of the destination. <...>
>>
>
> OK, yes I see what you are talking about. I had just hoped that I
> could cut out that extra step with TextEdit and just be able to do a
> command i (like in Safari) in a text web browser and be able to create
> an e-mail, but this is definately the next best thing.


You can set Mail.app to compose mail in text-only mode, rather than  
rich text, in Preferences->Composing-> Message Format.

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Scott Buntin