NetHopper although now discontinued is still a very popular and very free. It is very easy to use, but one issue is that NetHopper does not have a translator for ISO-8859-1 charset web pages, so it flat-out refuses to display them, which severely limits its functionality. (Now solved! See below!) It also has allows WebClipping.
There are a number of available plugins:
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NetHopper JPEG plugin is a plugin by Daniel Padilla that allows the viewing of .jpg images in NetHopper. Note: It uses
JPEGConvert by Steve Weyer.
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NetHopper Japanese plugin is a plugin for NetHopper which allows for Japanese characters to be read.
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NetHopper's virtual host patch is a plugin by Daniel Padilla which allows you to access virtual hosts on NetHopper and adds a MIME type to allow the direct download of Newton packages from
Unna.
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NetHopper's charsets patch is a plugin by Daniel Padilla that allows it to receive HTML pages with "utf-8" and "iso8859-1" character sets. Useful to access www.skweezer.net
The API's for NetHopper are still available via the Internet Archive:
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NetHopper APIs




