Re: [9fans] Re: Future of Plan9

["matt heath" <matt@proweb.co.uk>]

There's always the w3c standards compliant browser which is open source and
written in c not c++

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

plan9's graphical shell would also promote something like XML term

http://xmlterm.com

which renders xml/html interactively from the command line (xcat)

To bring it in to the plan9 world I suppose one would mount the page as a
file system exposing the DOM, links, images etc. in directories.
Use xcat to render the html and echo to manipulate the DOM in the language
of choice. Javascript would need to be implemented but I've used python,
perl and vbscript to do the job with IE. So build a native script language
and a javascript2native converter.

plan9 would then have great xml tools esp. with distributed execution

plan9 and Inferno are going to have to cope with xhtml and xhtml basic if
they want to continue to penetrate the embedded device scene.
I think the move to xhtml is a good thing for web design.
It would be a mistake to do an html 4 implementation and then watch it all
go down the pan.


so there's an anwer - email me when it's finished :-)