From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:08:51 -0700 From: Randolph Fritz To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] gtk port Message-ID: <20000629220850.A8523@cyber-dyne.com> References: <20000630010106.11410.qmail@ken.aichi-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20000630010106.11410.qmail@ken.aichi-u.ac.jp>; from arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp on Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 08:57:02PM -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cf71e7ba-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 08:57:02PM -0400, arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: > > Recent web pages are full of noisy commercials and junk images. > Therefore it may be a good idea to have a brawser based mainly > on text providing ability to get images in case of necessity. > Then the ideas: > > echo 'http://www.sciencemag.org/' > /mnt/web/get > > cat /mnt/web/data > or > > cat /http/www.sciencemag.org > or some other operations like plumb may be nice for plan 9. > It depends...as an architecture student & photographer I deal in graphics, and many sites of architectural firms would simply not be usable without them--take a look at , for instance. Even for more conventionally-designed sites, a little bit of layout often makes all the difference between clarity and obscurity--I use lynx sometimes, but I don't enjoy it. :( Perhaps the thing to do is port Mozilla's NGLayout (aka Gecko (tm)*) HTML/XML rendering engine, and see what support it needs--most of the graphic components are already there, and Plan 9's graphics model has one excellent advantage over Windows and MacOS--it already does transparency, which CSS requires. Plan 9's distributed design might be well-suited to a modular browser; that might even become a popular app. -- Randolph Fritz Eugene, Oregon, USA * Gecko is a trademark of Netscape, Inc. :)