Re: [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 27, Issue 52

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

the short answer is no.

abaco does look and feel like acme, but it is a seperate program that
must manage windows and subprocs (like win).  what would be idea is to
have a small program like win that reads pages from webfs. it should be
possible to do without reimplementing any of that stuff.

the interesting part of how to do this i conviently swept under the rug.
maybe /mnt/acme/$winid/layout.

btw, abaco's design is very good.  it does a really nice job of getting to the
point without reams of code.

- erik

On Tue Jul 25 17:59:42 CDT 2006, csant@csant.info wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:17:01 +0200, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
> wrote:
>
> > i think the ideal "browser" for plan 9 would be acme.
> >
> > if acme could handle a box-based layout with images and text, the
> > "web browser" could consist of webfs, http/layout and http/acmectl.
>
> Well, isn't that kind of the way Abaco is going? Acme-like UI + a
> rendering engine. Using Acme's MDI was an extremely happy choice for a
> browser.