W3m is a text-based pager and WWW browser. It is similar application to the famous text-based browser Lynx. However, w3m has several advantages against Lynx. For example, W3m can render tables. W3m can render frame (by converting frame into table). As w3m is a pager, it can read document from standard input. W3m is small. Why did I wrote w3m? Because I felt inconvenient with conventional browsers to `take a look' at web pages. When I want to take a glance at a web page, I don't want to wait to start up Netscape. W3m starts immediately with little load to the host machine.
Our Review: w3m is one of the leaders in the field of text-based WWW browsing, on an almost-even par with Lynx. Probably the one feature which sets w3m apart is its ability to display frames and tables. w3m