Eww (web browser)

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{{Infobox software

| name = eww

|screenshot = File:Eww GNU Emacs 24.4.png

|caption = A rendering of the Emacs article on English Wikipedia by eww

|developer = Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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| ver layout = stacked

|operating_system = Cross-platform

|programming language = Emacs Lisp

|genre = Web browser

|license = GPL-3.0-or-later

|website = [https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eww.html GNU Emacs manual]

}}

Emacs Web Wowser{{sic|hide=y}} (a backronym of "eww"{{cite web|url=http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2013/06/16/eww/|title=eww Random Thoughts|date=16 June 2013 }}) is a lightweight web browser within the GNU Emacs text editor.{{cite web|url=https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2014-10/msg00002.html|title=Emacs 24.4 released|quote=A built-in web browser (M-x eww)}} Eww can only do basic rendering of HTML; there is no capability for executing JavaScript or handling the intricacies of CSS.{{cite web|url=https://ersi.vivaldi.net/2020/02/19/eww-a-web-browser-inside-a-text-editor/ |title=Eww, a web browser inside a text editor|date=19 February 2020 }} It was developed by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, who also created the underlying HTML rendering library.{{cite web|url=https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/eww |title=EmacsWiki: eww}}