From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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Subject: Re: Browsers (was: Re: Plan 9 annoyances (was: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp)) 
In-Reply-To: Message from Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za> 
   of "Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:02:23 +0200." <20011010120222.X28720@cackle.proxima.alt.za> 
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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 19:38:32 +0100
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>  But
> given Plan 9's complete environment it ought to be moderately easy
> for a dedicated developer to produce the ultimate browser.

Plan 9 was an opportunity to redo from scratch, properly this time.
The web, in contrast, builds kruft upon kruft at an horrendous rate.
For a browser to be usable, it has to import all that kruft back in.
While there's a sliding boundary for how much kruft is acceptable in
order to communicate with non-Plan 9 systems, I think browsers crossed
over that boundary years ago.

steve