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From: Randolph Fritz <randolph@cyber-dyne.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Gecko based web browser
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:48:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000718164855.E959@cyber-dyne.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3974AD4E.8312954A@mail.usask.ca>; from aam396@mail.usask.ca on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:17:34PM -0600

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:17:34PM -0600, Andrey Mirtchovski wrote:
> Stephen Harris wrote:
> 
> > There is a small, working web browser thinly built around Gecko alone,
> > without the Mozilla baggage. It's called Galeon and is starting to
> > become popular.  It's at http://galeon.sourceforge.net
> 
> Oh yeah, it made it to slashdot even...
> 
> AFAIK it is tightly coupled with GNOME (they advertise it as a gnome web browser)
> which means it exploits the gtk+ libraries. A freebsd port is in the works (if
> not completed already) but a plan9 one would require gtk to be ported... And then
> we may just as well start porting the entire gnome bloatware... :P
> 

But Mozilla itself is not gtk based, so galeon might be a useful
model for a more 9ish version.  To be continued...

-- 
Randolph Fritz
Eugene, Oregon, USA


  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-18 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-18 19:03 Stephen Harris
2000-07-18 19:17 ` Andrey Mirtchovski
2000-07-18 23:48   ` Randolph Fritz [this message]
2000-07-19  5:40     ` Randolph Fritz
2000-07-19  9:26   ` Michael Dingler
2000-07-19 15:22   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-07-19 16:28     ` Andrey Mirtchovski
2000-07-19 16:47       ` Randolph Fritz
2000-07-19 22:52       ` sah
2000-07-20  1:16         ` James A. Robinson
2000-07-20  3:08         ` Boyd Roberts
2000-07-26  8:42     ` Ralph Corderoy
2000-07-19  9:27 ` Christopher Browne
2000-07-19 15:24   ` Andy Newman
2000-07-18 20:23 miller
2000-07-18 22:07 ` Randolph Fritz
2000-07-18 22:33 rob pike
2000-07-18 22:59 ` Howard Trickey
2000-07-21  8:34 ` Alt
2000-07-25 15:07   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-07-18 23:02 forsyth
2000-07-18 22:30 ` Frank Gleason
2000-07-19  0:17   ` Randolph Fritz
2000-07-19  0:01     ` Frank Gleason
2000-07-19  1:02 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2000-07-19 11:45 ` Theo Honohan
2000-07-19  7:18 forsyth
2000-07-19  7:43 ` Lucio De Re
2000-07-19  7:58 ` Randolph Fritz
2000-07-19 15:23 ` Jonathan Sergent
2000-07-20  1:41 rob pike
2000-07-20  8:34 ` George Coulouris
2000-07-20  4:05 James A. Robinson
2000-07-26 17:43 miller
2000-07-26 17:50 ` James G. Stallings II
2000-07-27  7:43   ` Matt
2000-07-27  7:54     ` Lucio De Re
2000-07-27 17:28       ` Matt

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