Re: mime/w3/html/images/agent support

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:

> (and if that doesn't indicate a complex issue...)
> 
> Ok, (ha ha ha, solve this one Lars):
> 
> I finally got a text/html message (I was going to try and generate one to
> mail myself figuring this issue would pop up, but I realized as I started
> the composition process that since dropping TM I could no longer *write*
> mime messages...  (unless I missed something)).

  You can use the TM composition stuff without using the reading hooks.
Somehow - I can't remember off the top of my head, it's been a while.

> Anyway, I figured this would happen: you get a text/html part that is
> displayed with w3 (which is, simply *way* too cool) but it trys to
> download the images.  This is a problem when you're in off-line agent
> mode (like I was) and it brought by my ISDN connection (not a big deal,
> but it shouldn't and would fail under many hand-dialed modem cases).
> Anyway, is there anyway to put w3 into an off-line mode telling it to
> only look in its cache (if it has one, its been a while since I've looked
> into it) that could be dependent on the plugged/unplugged status of gnus?

  You could do:

(let ((url-standalone-mode (not gnus-plugged)))
   (do-w3-stuff-here))

-Bill P.