From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:58:38 +0200 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] mothra Message-ID: <20000718105838.R2260@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <10007170956.ZM905012@marvin> <397385A3.6AD65F99@arl.army.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <397385A3.6AD65F99@arl.army.mil>; from Douglas A. Gwyn on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:25:22AM +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e146b8a8-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:25:22AM +0000, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote: > > Surely somebody must be trying to port Mozilla to Plan 9? Hopefully not. Maybe Opera, but does one really need Netscape's near-operating system effort just to present a few pictures? I think we may want to reverse the paradigm: when we were considering http options, it was established that the filesystem representation would fall short of needs. But perhaps a graphic model can be designed with HTML as its input, and one may even make it flexible enough to deal with revamps such as the addition of tables and frames. I have a vague feeling that this can be mapped onto a filesystem, or am I dreaming? ++L